a fingerprint lifted from a glass. and combining a picture of a person's iris with a contact lens got them past a samsung phone iris scan or. packers from germany's chaos computer club have developed a wax hand that fooled a palm vein scanner. and chinese hackers spoofed apple's face id live news detection technology with just a pair of glasses and some tape. we should stress all these hacks were carried out under lab conditions the quality of a system sensors largely determines how safe it is which means smartphones are easier to outwit than elaborate security systems. clearly biometrics aren't as safe as you might think even though it's an area like taking a fake wex hand along to break into a high security area isn't very realistic either still many tech companies keep rolling out biometric security features the latest apple and google's models for