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Fun with Fingerprint Readers

Posted by michael on from the black-forest-or-haribo dept.

Two pieces of news that came in today make a fun counterpoint to each other. First, a grocery chain is trying out a biometric checkout system. Bring your groceries, pay with a fingerprint. Unfortunately, a story in Bruce Schneier's monthly newsletter notes that fingerprint scanners can be fooled with a bit of gelatin.

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  1. Re:I Have 50 Karma Points, Need To Burn by Computer! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry, loser, the parent post is still at 1.

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  2. Re:I Have 50 Karma Points, Need To Burn by Computer! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Finish what?

    True, there's another post from some woman that got modded down to -1 FOR NO APPARENT REASON. Weird.

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    If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy