It was noted by another respondant and it must be kept in mind that the serious players in the fingerprint space have and continue to work on technology that is not easily defeated by such techniques. Our organization uses technology that reads the print at the live layer of skin (saline layer) by sending what amounts to RF or faint electrical impulses to the live layer. Any print at the surface would be ignored. To defeat this process one would have to emulate live human physiology. Maybe not impossible, but the bar becomes higher and certainly the cost and practicality of performing such a hack goes way up. In very high risk situations, couple that with other factors of authentication and it is a pretty good system.

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