A YouTube video was released yesterday showing just how easy it is to trick the Galaxy S5’s fingerprint sensor by using a fake fingerprint, allowing hackers to unlock the hset or authorize purchases through yl.

Researchers were able to “hack” the Galaxy S5’s sensor by finding photographing a latent fingerprint on the smartphone’s display. From there, a wood glue mold was made of the fingerprint, the researchers were able to successfully unlock the hset. at’s more ominous, though, is that this is also a method of accessing yl with the Galaxy S5. In the wrong hs, a hacker could easily send funds to his or her own account with little effort.

This type of fingerprint spoofing from latent prints is easy enough to do if one had the right materials available the time to get the print from the user. tent prints are invisible to the naked eye, but oils from the skin keep the print intact on surfaces, which can be revealed with magnesium powder.

The idea of being able to swipe your finger or scan your eye to unlock your phone sounds incredibly futuristic interesting, I’ll give you that. That said, the threats are very real when it comes to these type of bio-hacks, they’ll more than likely increase going forward.

A novel gimmicky feature, a fingerprint reader on a smartphone might sound pretty nifty, but we’d stick with the pin or password for now on the Galaxy S5.