[Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjenyd/researchers-created-fake-master-fingerprints-to-unlock-smartphones?utm_source=mbtwitter)
It’s the same principle as a master key, but applied to biometric identification with a high rate of success.

['The biggest, strangest problem I could find to study'](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47158067)
> His analysis shows that only a small percentage of the traffic is benign.

> That fraction comes from search engines indexing websites or organisations such as the Internet Archive scraping sites. Some comes from security companies and other researchers.

> **The rest of the internet's background noise - about 95% - is malicious.**