Using scanners that don t offer proper security protection. see that in hanover is the world s biggest computer trade fair. among the vendors is the company behind the fingerprint scanner. but. what do they know about this serious security loophole and are they. willing to comment. the company in question is derma laws a subsidiary of germany s federal printing office and as such a government agency. will provide biometric authentication for governments who want to ensure that when they issue a passport driver s license or similar document diversion that individual is unable to engage in identity fraud is between. their standing kluges a presentation of a similar scanner we put it to the test this thing of the sort is that photo then encrypted in the device just don t know if it s sent to a p.c.
See data in hanover is the world s biggest computer trade fair. among the vendors is the company behind the fingerprint scanner. what do they know about this serious security loophole and are they. willing to comment. the company in question is derma laws a subsidiary of germany s federal printing office and as such a government agency. will provide biometric authentication for governments who want to ensure that when they issue a passport driver s license or similar document diversion that individual is unable to engage in identity fraud duties between. their standing clothes a presentation of a similar scanner we put it to the test this thing of the sort is that photo then encrypted in the device just doesn t know it sent to a p.c.
Time russians were snooping around. according to the justice department s special counsel investigation that included snooping around website of concern counties in georgia to identify vulnerabilities. lamb didn t know about the russians, but he did know having voting records so easily accessible was a problem. so he e-mailed and then he called georgia s center for election systems, run out of this house on the campus of the university to warn them. six months later all that georgia voter data was still unprotected. all the passwords, everything was still available, to anybody who wanted it. right, yeah. reporter: what does that tell but the secure election of the state of georgia? georgia s election systems they should not be trusted. reporter: eventually, the university closed the security loophole and notified the state. a lawsuit was filed challenging the security of georgia s elections. then, shockingly, evidence of
Portions positions in this administration and i think the american people are sick an tired of it. they want a government to work for them and not the self dealing members of the administration but for the american people. congressman, thank you for taking the time. thank you. coming up next, breaking news. prosecutors rest their case in the fraud trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. will he take the stand? his own defense before the case goes to a jury? and baggage handler steals a airliner and flies it wildly for more than an hour before crashing. is there a security loophole that authorities urgently need to close?
Incident or did this man expose a security issue across the country? he s drawn an attention to a security loophole across the country. similar things have happened before. people might remember the case, i think called the barefoot bandit. a young man who stole five planes across the country. by the way, an odd coincidence, he was prosecuted and sentenced in seattle. and he stole planes but they were private planes and then there was a situation in, i think it was botswana, where a pilot took a plane unauthorized and crashed it into the airline s other planes leaving them with just one airplane. it s happened before but not had attention drawn to it in the united states. mary, i want to listen to a small portion of the conversation with the control tower and the man flying the plane. take a listen.