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Fingerprint Scanner That Works From 6 Feet
Bruce Schneier found a somewhat older story that I haven't seen before about a device that is smaller than a tissue box, but uses two 1.3 megapixel cameras and a polarized light source to scan a fingerprint from two meters away.
What a great way to surreptitiously collect fingerprints en masse: take this device, attach a camera, and use a website like Facebook to connect an image of a person's face to the recorded fingerprint.
Any lawyers want to comment on the legality of such an operation in the United States?
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At a distance it'll be even harder to tell that you're wearing a fake fingerprint skin.
Fringerprints are worthless as biometric identity data because they are easy to acquire and copy but impossible to replace once compromised.
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Fingerprint Sniffer That Works From 6 Feet
Doesn't this technology invalidate all existing fingerprint scanners? An attacker can easily mine the fingerprints of every employee of a company by leaving a few innocent looking rocks in their parking lot.
I don't see the point. Women at the bars say they know exactly who I am from across the room. *shrug*
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Cool, so now I can log into my laptop by giving it thumbs up if I buy the device?
Double thumbs up for su?
Hyperbole: I use it liberally!
Why? because you didn't read:
"Currently, individuals entering a military installation must place their fingers on a scanner, with a Marine standing beside them to help ensure a viable print. Powell would prefer there to be a safe distance between the Marine and the person being scanned."
aside from personal safety, if you don't touch the pad, you don't smudge it.. thus the part about "viable print"
What, as opposed to the TSA setting up a backscatter imager in a public place, and by the time people reached the sign indicating they were in an area that "might" be scanned, they already had been? Or a courthouse keeping thousands of images of people in the scanners?
This is all about people who are quite willing to implement the surveillance society for us. Everything you do will be monitored, without you knowing it.
The people who are buying and building these technologies are giddy at the prospect of gathering all of their information with neither your consent nor your knowledge.
And you're asking for what the 'legitimate' uses of this are? The short answer from them is "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear". You're expected to be compliant, and just suck it up and accept it as normal.
To them, in order to protect us from terrorists, they need the ability to take this information from you without needing to ask you.
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That's it! From now on I'm giving the finger to anyone who waves at me.
Burcham says several potential customers have indicated that a single-finger scanner would be sufficient for their needs—so AOS plans to sell both a single-finger device and a more expensive five-finger device.
But shouldn't there be a 5 finger discount?
This is all about people who are quite willing to implement the surveillance society for us. Everything you do will be monitored, without you knowing it.
I finally found a use for my tin-foil gloves.
Thanks, we put the camera behind you.
Could someone explain how this works? Is this some sort of speckle interferometer? I don't understand how you can get the ridge profile by separating the light polarities unless you're shining the laser at very steep angles..
I have been using fingerprint scanners for years, even on laptops. Recently they added them at my gym. They work for me about 15% of the time, and my finger is pressing against it. I have also read about retinal scanners that work at 5 meters. Perhaps like many products, these work well in the lab but not in the wild.
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