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Biometrics aren't unbreakable and can be spoofed quite trivially in many cases.

Here's a professor spoofing high-end fingerprint scanners with gelatin and a printer: http://vast.uccs.edu/~tboult/tmp/fingerprint-boult-koaa-medi... (sorry for the sensationalism at the beginning)



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