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Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us YubaNet is reporting that in recent tests by Stephanie C Schuckers, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkston University, she has shown that, among other things, biometric security measures were fooled 90% of the time by simple attacks like Play-Doh molds. From the article: "Schuckers' biometric research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. She is currently assessing spoofing vulnerability in fingerprint scanners and designing methods to correct for these as part of a $3.1 million interdisciplinary research project funded through the NSF."
Oh, it's even better than that. I've got FireFox 1.5 on XP, and I choose to ignore font styles.
When I put my mouse cursor on the first line underneath where the title "George Harrison Biography (Mr Showbiz)", the site DANCES for me.
Dance George, dance!
ooh, just found another.
Put your cursor over/near the graphic "separator" just above where it says "Tribute Biography (Assoc. Press Bio)". Lovely.
But thanks for your contribution of typically ill-informed libertarian rhetoric. It's more obvious when you paste it into random situations like this just how bankrupt that argument is.
Wow. Ignoring the unnecessarily aggressive tone of your argument, I STILL fail to see the problem in my argument:
STORY POSTED BY *B-B ANNOYS EVERYONE -> IGNORE HIS STORIES, NOT CLICKING ON HIS LINKS, NOT POSTING COMMENTS -> SLASHDOT STOPS POSTING STORIES BY **B-B DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST. Where exacty does pagerank fit into my argument?If your gonna do something like that, why not use something like the hospital finger clamps, making the clamp a open switch, and the finger the closing element, and only activate depending on the electrical resistance of the finger (so it doesnt go off from a peice of metal or whatever, say.) then have the clamp hooked to a circuit or program to calculate if their heartrate is "abnormally high" (so in case you get a gun stuck to your head, it doesnt do your attacker any good) and then put your finger print scanner inside the clamp... though all this does is take care of a finger print scanner in a really complex way...
Better yet, and easier, just use retinal scanners, or thermal imaging of their face to check the location of the veins in their head (fars I've hear, everybodys forehead veins are different, security firms were looking into using that)
Still easiest of all, go talk to the Israelies, they're supposed to be the masters of security (camera/automatic face recognition and that sort of thing anyway)....
I'm one more article away to flag ScuttleMonkey as an editor I don't want to read from anymore in my settings.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Almost all of **BB's submissions have been accepted by SkuttleMonkey, so I suggest that the appropriate action is to block stories from this 'editor'. I have now done so, and if enough other people do then it will start to hurt /.'s revenue (if no one sees his articles, no one will read them. If no one reads them, then no one will see the adverts, or use up any of their subscription money on them) and hopefully this will encourage them to employ some more competent people.
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Someone beat me to it... I live less than 10 minutes (walking time) from Clarkson. In case anyone was interested, http://clarkson.edu/ is Clarkson's website.
The only question is whether slashdot is paying **Beatles-Beatles, or **Beatles-Beatles is paying slashdot.
Who cares? His stories are much more interesting than copy machines on holidays stupidity.