Is it possible to crack a Biometric USB thumb drive

[steppinthrax]

Ok here's the deal.

My professor gave us a challenge if any one of us can crack a USB thumb drive with biometric security and show him the printout of the file he will give that person an A. From what I understand the thumb drives encrypt the file based on the fingerprint. The fingerprint is digitized in almost like a cipher key or something like that. Is this unfeasible. Not worth it.???

I'm thinking he throws out water bottles at the end of every class I could lift the fingerprints off those but I have to make mold right?????

Is this possible?

 

[MadAmos]

How do you know he used his fingerprint and not a TA's or whom ever, also which finger, if he wanted to be tricky he could use something like his ring finger.

 

[steppinthrax]

Originally posted by: MadAmos
How do you know he used his fingerprint and not a TA's or whom ever, also which finger, if he wanted to be tricky he could use something like his ring finger.

That's true and I will ask him something similar to that when he give it to us.