A big grocery store chain in Germany offers a fingerprint system for easy payment in some of its stores. You register your fingerprint and instead of using cash or your credit card you indentify by pressing one of your fingers on a fingerprint-reader which matches it to the previously registered one

Earlier this week a german TV magazine showed with help of the CCC how easy it is to trick the system with a fingerprint copied from a cup or glass. That's not surprising. It has been shown numerous times in the past how easy it is to crack most of these systems.

Most astonishing was the answer from the grocery store chain. They don't see any need to act on this finding. The system is approved for use in united states government agencies and is being used by about 200 million persons. The manufacturer of the system claimed that his system is the most safe way for electronic payment. And they will reimburse any customer who proves the misuse.

Unbelievably ignorant.