I thought some countersurveillance folks on here might be interested in my new story for VICE / Motherboard, which is looking at a student designer's project to make disposable/replaceable fingerprints:
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-replaced-my-fingerprints-with-prosthetics-to-avoid-surveillance
The idea is that you wear one of these things to unlock your phone, tablet, etc instead of your real finger (which as we all know can be duplicated and is probably already in a government database somewhere anyway). So if your device is ever stolen or you're arrested during a protest or while reporting from a hostile environment, you can just "revoke" the fake fingerprint by discarding/destroying it.
Anyway I found it to be pretty cool and relatively unobtrusive compared to similar projects. Curious to know what y'all think about future applications and use cases, esp. for journalists/activists.
And for those wondering: the creator says he might produce and sell them but he's still looking for someone to help manufacture the material.
