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Aussie Kids Foil Finger Scanner With Gummi Bears
mask.of.sanity writes "An Australian high school has installed 'secure' fingerprint scanners for roll call for senior students, which savvy kids may be able to circumvent with sweets from their lunch box. The system replaces the school's traditional sign-in system with biometric readers that require senior students to have their fingerprints read to verify attendance.
The school principal says the system is better than swipe cards because it stops truant kids getting their mates to sign-in for them. But using the Gummi Bear attack, students can make replicas of their own fingerprints from gelatin, the ingredient in Gummi Bears, to forge a replica finger. The attack worked against a bunch of scanners that detect electrical charges within the human body, since gelatin has virtually the same capacitance as a finger's skin."
Duke Igthorn is NOT going to be happy when he hears about this!
>Now get off of my lawn.
okie dokie dukie :)
You mean like getting them to figure out how to defeat a high-tech security system using gummi bears?
It's fun and you can eat the evidence!
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
That would be way too much work. Y'know, where I live teachers have to take roll- And boy oh boy do they hate it. They have to actually get on the schools network, and then CHECK THE STUDENTS OFF! It's insane! I think we should move to DNA testing: Each child has to spit in a cup and give it to the DNA lab when they come in in the morning, and in good time we'll know for sure who's skipping. We should also hire an entire staff to do this, and to make sure each kid gets one cup, this will prevent kids from signing their friends in! This would solve the whole "too much work for a government employee" issue. (Wow, I'm genius.)
Feel free to mod me down, just know that unlike some Anonymous Cowards I'm not afraid to express my views as myself.
My son is an Aussie kid and there is no way he could not eat a gummi bear long enough to foil a finger scanner.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
You could change identities whenever you please.
Finally my dream of becoming a 10year old choir boy is getting ever closer :-)
- Igthorn
Laws are horrible moral guides, moral guides make even worse laws.
... or this tasty!
You seriously do not want to eat a gummi bear that's touched the same scanner as a couple hundred teenagers - trust me, I used to be one, I know the kinds of things they touch.
You used to be a biometric scanner?