You’ve undoubtedly seen iris scanners being tricked by some high-tech contact or even via a scavenged eyeball in action/adventure or thriller movies when a secret agent or criminal wants to break into a vault or other high tech facility. Yet what if iris scans could be faked for real via a simple printed image to fool iris recognition systems? What if iris recognition biometric systems could be hacked? From the Iriscode to the Iris: A New Vulnerability of Iris Recognition Systems is a Black Hat USA briefing scheduled for July 25. This strikes me as particularly interesting in light of the FBI’s plans to test a database “for searching iris scans nationwide to more quickly track criminals.” By Darlene StormLink: Computerworld