It should be trivial to get fingerprint patterns for many of the most important

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It should be trivial to get fingerprint patterns for many of the most important people in the world, as they frequently (enough) wave their hand, palms forward, to many HD cameras. Is it possible to gather this information of fingertips to overcome fingerprint security systems?

I understand that fingerprint security systems would always use defense in depth strategies, but if peoples' fingerprints are so easy to obtain (by just analyzing their photographs), why respect them as secure in the first place?

Explanation / Answer

No, I don't think photographs or HD camera footage of powerful people waving to cameras is a security flaw for several reasons:

1. It's not trivial to get fingerprint patterns from HD cameras: it's highly unlikely that you could make a workable print from an HD camera. Even if the person in question held their finger up to the camera in perfect lighting conditions it would still be difficult to achieve
2. Fingerprint technology is unlikely to be relevant to the most important people in the world: I highly doubt that anyone of that level of importance or power ever needs to open a door for themselves, let alone use a fingerprint reader.
3. Even if they do use fingerprint readers an attacker is unlikely to be able to access them. If it's important enough to have a fingerprint reader that a world leader uses it's going to be pretty well protected

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