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The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing?
AxisPower9 writes "What we often watch in films and television - circumventing biometric security access - is turning from science-fiction to reality. Bori Toth, biometric research and advisory lead at Deloitte & Touche, warned that biometric spoofing is a growing concern. From the article: 'We are leaving our prints everywhere so the chance of someone lifting them and copying them is real. Currently it's only researchers that are doing spoofing and copying. It's not a mainstream activity--but it will be. Many people are trying to regard biometrics as secret but they aren't. Our faces and irises are visible and our voices are being recorded. Fingerprints and DNA are left everywhere we go and it's been proved that these are real threats.'"
Always carry a pocketfull of eyeballs and thumbs...and realize, at one point, those lil' orbs are going to accidentally fall out and you are going to be chasing those slipper rolling suckers all over the floor.
Where were you when the voynix came?
This adds further realism to Charlie's Angels.
Luck favors the prepared, darling.
That's what you think!!! (Pulls tin hat tighter around head)
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Our faces and irises are visible and our voices are being recorded.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200209/mann
Iris scanner - a million bucks
Glasses with a picture of someone else's eyeballs - $5.00
Stickin' it to da man! - priceless.
In the end, there's no truly safe solution, except for multiple layers of passwords, biometrics, DNA samples, and the like, and even then, a determined foe will find a way to breach it. What Mankind can create, Mankind can subvert.
Sorry, your identical human clone has already cleared out your bank account and stolen your wife as you read this.
Better luck next time!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
You'll see it, day after day. At Star Labs, everyone with proper clearance peers into the little iris-recognizing window and presses their thumb on the panel. They are them permitted into the building. Sitting on a bench near the entrance you'll find Edward Scissorhands and Scott "Cyclops" Summers, forlornly begging everyone who walks by and enters the building to for once, break security protocol and just let them in!
Where were you when the voynix came?
What Mankind can create, Mankind can subvert.
Clearly it's time to start having dolphins create secure systems for us.
Data will use biometric spoofing to take over the Enterprise in 2367: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_(TNG_episode )
So, this problem is apparently here to stay.