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Magazine Photos Fool Age-verification Cameras

Posted by timothy on from the porn-magazine-photos-doubly-so dept.

gregor-e writes "Japan has scheduled a full-scale rollout of visual age-verification on cigarette vending machines. Unfortunately for them, a Sankei Sports news reporter has determined that this system can be fooled by holding up a magazine photo of an adult."

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  1. Re:And in related news by CaptainPatent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even better is if the machine was re-designed to detect magazines and other pictures of people and actually did dispense pictures of cigarettes.

    The machine could even keep their money, because I doubt a teen is going to report a cigarette machine took it!

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    Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
  2. The moral of the story by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Never send a computer to do a human's work.