Getting Fingerprint Readers to Read Your Prints?

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Getting Fingerprint Readers to Read Your Prints?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 20, 2006 @05:10AM from the worse-than-pesky-smartcards dept.

crypticgeek asks: "I recently obtained a new job, and I'm already at my wit's end. Many of the doors in our facility have finger print readers because they are high security areas. No matter how hard I've tried, I can't get the system to read my prints very well, since they aren't well 'defined'. This means I don't have access to the areas I need to. I have to have someone else let me in to secure areas. I've tried using lotion thinking they were too dry, but that didn't work. In fact, most of the time my hands are really sweaty. Someone suggested I use nail polish remover and that would 'raise' the print, however I'm skeptical. Has anyone else had problems with finger print devices, or know of some possible ways of getting a better read?"

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Don't these things... by Bin_jammin · 2006-01-20 05:14 · Score: 2, Funny

work on a charge differential between the reader and the body? Perhaps your biological clock is running down, try plugging yourself into 110AC.
Dude... by BigZaphod · 2006-01-20 05:15 · Score: 3, Funny

You need to watch more James Bond movies.. Everyone knows you can get a little hand-held device which reads your finger prints and then electronically displays them on a little screen which all finger print readers can read. Just get yourself one of those, have it read your prints, and then carry it around with you in your pocket! As a bonus: when you're bored at work you can go around using a print dusting kit and grab the prints of everyone else in the office, too, and snoop around in high security areas that you don't normally have access to during the night. Duh!

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1. Re:Dude... by FidelCatsro · 2006-01-20 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No no no, everyone knows the best way is to find a security guard with high clearance, Shoot him in the back of the head with a silenced pistol and either chop off his hand and use it on the pad or drag his corpse around
  
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Jelly Bears by johnjones · 2006-01-20 05:15 · Score: 3, Funny

try sticking Jelly Bears over your thumb and placing over the reader

works most of the time just dont look at who had access...

regards

John Jones
Suggestion by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-20 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Have you tried taking your gloves off?
Re:Use another finger by Peter+Simpson · 2006-01-20 05:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, I'm thinking by this time he'll be using his middle finger! :-)
finger on a string by nomax · 2006-01-20 05:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Easy - get yourself to some local med school and barter for a finger from some leftover dissection class (there's gotta be tons of extra fingers right?). Make sure it has a nice print. Anyway, retrain your work security system on the new finger, and pop that baby around your neck on a string. If the system has one of those annoying "it has to be warm" features just stick it in your mouth for a minute before use.
Consider yourself lucky by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-20 06:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Now go rob some banks, steal a car, or something.
Fingerprint readers by TREETOP · 2006-01-20 06:31 · Score: 0, Funny

(1) Go to Wendy's, buy a large cup of chili..... (2) never mind.