I had this thought on that story yesterday about requiring thumbprints to activate a DVD in your player, but didn't follow up on it.
If the *AAs push intrusive biometric authentication for something people really want, but don't want to hassle with that shit over, people will find a way around it. This in turn also makes biometrics ineffective for applications where the security is actually warrented and a benefit to society. So if the *AA's keep idiotically pushing DRM down people's throats, they're undercutting the whole security infrastructre of society. Add a little imagination, and in a stretch, you could argue that we're headed to a world where DVD players indirectly led to the levelling of 100+-story buildings./tinfoil hat
In order to fake a fingerprint, one needs an original first. Latent fingerprints are nothing but fat and sweat on touched items. Thus to retrieve someone elses fingerprint (in this case the fingerprint you want to forge) one should rely on well tested forensic research methods. Which is what's to be explained here. (Figure 1).
A good source of originals for our counterfeits are glasses, doorknobs and glossy paper. The standard method of forensic research makes them visible: Sprinkling it with colored powder, which sticks to the fat (Figure 2).
Another solution involves Cyanoacrylat, the main ingredient of superglue. A small amount thereof is poured into a bottlecap, which is then turned upside down and put over the fingerprint. (Figure 3).
The Cyanoacrylat gasses out and reacts with the fat residue to a solid, white substance (Figure 4).
The further treatment involves scanning/photographing (Figure 5) and a bit of graphical refurbishment (Figure 6).
The goal is to get an exact image of the fingerprint, for further use as mold, out of which the dummy is made. The easiest way is to print the image on a transparency slide (the ones normally used for an overhead projector) with a laser printer. The toner forms a relief, which is later used similar to letter press printing. Wood glue is suitable for producing the dummy (Figure 7)
A small dash of glycerene may be used to optimize humidity and workability. After thorough mixing, the dummy gets coated with a thin layer of the compound (Figure 8,9).
After the glue has dried (Figure 10), it is pulled off the foil (Figure 11) and is cut to finger size.
Theatrical glue is used to glue the dummy onto the own finger (Figure 12).
The media distribution companies won't be happy until we're all trussed up like Hannibal Lecter, becuase we might copy their precious "intellectual property"!!!!
They need to make things EASIER and more attractive to the consumer, not less!
If a restrictive, half-baked scheme like this went through, it'd be easier to buy the damn media, and then download a cracked copy off your favorite p2p so you can easily view the movie you paid for on your laptop.
Can't they at least sneak an Apple ][ or C64 onto the chipset just to shut the old timers up?! Well, of course it has more X than your first computer did. It's got your first computer in it.
We've heard all these reports about actors and newspeople hating HD because it shows every little goddamned crow's foot and pimple. So why the hell would anyone want HD videoconferecning?!!!
Just stabalize the damn framerate so we don't all get siezures and I'd be satisfied! Hell, you can even go lo-fi for all I care.
Although the Linux kernel now supports modules, there are a lot of features traditionally built-in that really should be split off. I mean, really, do the schedualler, line cache, and sphygmometer need to be built into the kernel?!!!
Or you could just use a little suspension of disbelief and accept the sets as what they portrayed.
Do you bitch about how unrealistic the sets are when you go see a play? Special-effects addled Americans think everything has to be hyperreallistic or its crap. All the sets need to do is give the viewer's imagination a prod in the right direction.
"OOOOHHHH! Look at me, I'm British!"
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Then shouldn't they be licensing their content library and paying you dividends?
It is a well known fact[*] that it is the responsibility of the Jedi master to subtly use the force to direct the padewan to hold the lightsaber in a safe manner during the initial familiarization section. Plus, they just turn down the field strength on those training lightsabers, so all you get is a unpleasant tingling sensation.
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"Yes America, we would like very much if you would teach your children religious dogma instead of science."
If the *AAs push intrusive biometric authentication for something people really want, but don't want to hassle with that shit over, people will find a way around it. This in turn also makes biometrics ineffective for applications where the security is actually warrented and a benefit to society. So if the *AA's keep idiotically pushing DRM down people's throats, they're undercutting the whole security infrastructre of society. Add a little imagination, and in a stretch, you could argue that we're headed to a world where DVD players indirectly led to the levelling of 100+-story buildings. /tinfoil hat
In order to fake a fingerprint, one needs an original first. Latent fingerprints are nothing but fat and sweat on touched items. Thus to retrieve someone elses fingerprint (in this case the fingerprint you want to forge) one should rely on well tested forensic research methods. Which is what's to be explained here. (Figure 1).
A good source of originals for our counterfeits are glasses, doorknobs and glossy paper. The standard method of forensic research makes them visible: Sprinkling it with colored powder, which sticks to the fat (Figure 2).
Another solution involves Cyanoacrylat, the main ingredient of superglue. A small amount thereof is poured into a bottlecap, which is then turned upside down and put over the fingerprint. (Figure 3).
The Cyanoacrylat gasses out and reacts with the fat residue to a solid, white substance (Figure 4).
The further treatment involves scanning/photographing (Figure 5) and a bit of graphical refurbishment (Figure 6).
The goal is to get an exact image of the fingerprint, for further use as mold, out of which the dummy is made. The easiest way is to print the image on a transparency slide (the ones normally used for an overhead projector) with a laser printer. The toner forms a relief, which is later used similar to letter press printing. Wood glue is suitable for producing the dummy (Figure 7)
A small dash of glycerene may be used to optimize humidity and workability. After thorough mixing, the dummy gets coated with a thin layer of the compound (Figure 8,9).
After the glue has dried (Figure 10), it is pulled off the foil (Figure 11) and is cut to finger size.
Theatrical glue is used to glue the dummy onto the own finger (Figure 12).
The new identity is ready!
They need to make things EASIER and more attractive to the consumer, not less!
If a restrictive, half-baked scheme like this went through, it'd be easier to buy the damn media, and then download a cracked copy off your favorite p2p so you can easily view the movie you paid for on your laptop.
heh. /. !
And Taco says nobody bothers to read the comments on
or something....
Can't they at least sneak an Apple ][ or C64 onto the chipset just to shut the old timers up?! Well, of course it has more X than your first computer did. It's got your first computer in it.
I document what my boss does. Black folder at the back of the drawer, if you need it.
And they say slashdot's a waste of time...
ugh.
Funny, this troll seems like it just happens to be ONtopic!
Just like Hollywood.
This is America, if any company ever successfully defines all the steps and gets all the way to Profit!, a following Lawsuit! play is always inferred.
Just stabalize the damn framerate so we don't all get siezures and I'd be satisfied! Hell, you can even go lo-fi for all I care.
Every company over a certain size has a Milton.
interesting....
"You need to reboot your computer for these changes to take effect."
Aparently some of the above posters are Americans, and hence too dense to grasp sarcasm.
And that special olympics in space is a national shame.
Well, so much for that!
How did qnx avoid the problem of message-passing overhead? (Other than being tuned to a specific architecture until recently.)
Although the Linux kernel now supports modules, there are a lot of features traditionally built-in that really should be split off. I mean, really, do the schedualler, line cache, and sphygmometer need to be built into the kernel?!!!
Do you bitch about how unrealistic the sets are when you go see a play? Special-effects addled Americans think everything has to be hyperreallistic or its crap. All the sets need to do is give the viewer's imagination a prod in the right direction.
SUCKER.
But no hookers, though...
[*]To those that know such things...