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Cry To Beat Iris Scanners

Posted by timothy on from the being-maudlin-has-its-privileges dept.

Ant writes "The Register has an article on how crying beats iris scanners. An MP who volunteered to take part in the UK ID card trials says the iris scanner used is uncomfortable and made his eyes water... The water in his eyes actually stopped the scanner from working, and it seems long eyelashes and hard contact lenses could fox it too... So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?"

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  1. Tech meet Typical by brolewis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hm, so technology meets the sterotypical cop: bat your eyelashes, cry a little and get out of the ticket.

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    1. Re:Tech meet Typical by Mycroft_VIII · · Score: 4, Funny
      So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?
      Going to?? This sounds like the same system the male brain works on, and has since day 1.
      At least the defect in the male brain serves a purpose (at least it dose for women, us guys are just stuck with it.)

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    2. Re:Tech meet Typical by condensate · · Score: 4, Funny

      There are NO icebears in Antarctica. But perhaps the penguins that live there would eat you???

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    3. Re:Tech meet Typical by JeremyALogan · · Score: 5, Funny
      ... derailed by a few tears...
      sounds like the sex in my last relationship.

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  2. uhh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?

    We already have a system like that. It's called Windows.

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  3. Already do... by guycouch · · Score: 4, Funny

    "So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?" Yes. They're called women.

  4. Other methods... by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet sandpaper works too!

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  5. How to fool an eye scan by Wasteofspace · · Score: 4, Funny

    I recently had a bad fall and ended up in hospital (no need to mention the shopping trolley and the amount of alcohol that caused this situation)

    After some standard tests, the doctor spotted that one of my iris's (sp?) was larger than the other, which had something to do with the head trauma.

    Basically that means that if you need to pass an eye scan, just drink lots, grab a trolley, fall on your head, and nothing will be able recognise you by your eyes any longer as the features of them will have changed.

    (probably talkin s%$t, but i could be right, right??)

  6. Long eyelashes by jamesh · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have eyelashes long enough that they rub on most sunglasses I wear. They also blur my peripheral vision unless I open my eyes up really wide. How long do they have to be to interfere with such a system?

    I've never been game to trim them though :)

    My daughters have inherited the long eyelashes though and they suit them much better.

  7. Interesting Countermeasure by geekanarchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I may just start selling signs that say "Secure Area: No Chopped Onions Allowed".

  8. Re:Emotions by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "So the only people that can be succesfully scanned are Vulcans?"

    First they have sex more often then I do, and now they can enter places I can't? Depressing.

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  9. Re:Discrimanatory by lavaface · · Score: 4, Funny
    Against people without eyes. But there aren't many people without eyes I guess.

    Why, oh why, is there not a "retarded" modifier?!

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  10. Re:Discrimanatory by chimpo13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    But who's going to sign it?

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  11. tears and fluttering eyelashes.... by JaJ_D · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?"

    Yeap its called my love life :-]

    Jaj

  12. Re:Discrimanatory by MarkGriz · · Score: 4, Funny

    "There are no people alive without a head"

    True, but many without a brain.

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