23-05-2017 16:21 via theguardian.com

Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner fooled by German hackers

New phone’s feature has been bypassed less than a month after it was shipped to public, adding fuel to debate about biometric securityThe iris-recognition feature in Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 smartphone has been defeated by German hackers, less than a month after it hit shelves around the world.A video posted by the Chaos Computer Club, a long-running hacker collective formed in Berlin in 1981, shows the security feature being fooled by a dummy eye into thinking that it is being unlock
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