Magazine Photos Fool Age-verification Cameras

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."

Comments

In Korea only old people

[Overzeetop]

...use magazine photos?

Sorry, it's the only thing that came to mind.

Re:In Korea only old people

[techno-vampire]

Actually, old people don't need to use magazine photographs. In Korea, only young people use photographs. In Soviet Russia, of course, magazine photos use young people.