WRITTEN ON October 21st, 2006 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized

…should you ever feel it necessary. Say this to yourself in a German accent

In order to fake a fingerprint, one needs an original first. Latent fingerprints are nothing but fat and sweat on touched items. Thus to retrieve someone elses fingerprint (in this case the fingerprint you want to forge) one should rely on well tested forensic research methods. Which is what’s to be explained here. (Figure 1).

A good source of originals for our counterfeits are glasses, doorknobs and glossy paper. The standard method of forensic research makes them visible: Sprinkling it with colored powder, which sticks to the fat (Figure 2).

Good excuse to link to what I think is one of the world’s best-designed web sites: the Chaos Computer Club. Man, they would give this kind of stuff short shrift in China – the CCC would be scratching “Kabelsalat macht gesund” on a prison wall somewhere for the rest of their lives.