Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner fooled by German hackers
by Alex Hern from on (#2QF2A)
New phone's feature has been bypassed less than a month after it was shipped to public, adding fuel to debate about biometric security
The 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 unlocked by a legitimate owner.
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