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https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/researcher-steals-fingerprints-by-hacking-smart-lock/

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A researcher in Singapore has hacked the current generation of smart locks that use fingerprint readers. “I wanted to find out how easy it would be to turn one into something evil: a device that can steal the fingerprint of a victim by beaming an image of it wirelessly to someone nearby,” said Dr Steve Kerrison, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at James Cook University in Singapore.