[Free Fire Zone]

Safety in Technology. (NOT)

[arthurus]

Great advances come from technology. Unfortunately technology also provides counters to the advances. When a development is touted as unbeatable, the promoters are discussing today's development compared to yesterday's tech, but the other side is using today's tech, too.

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May 15, 2002 issue of Crypto-Gram cited in the article.

[Dialup Llama]

As shown in the movie Gattaca.

[Movemout]

Methinks that Matsumoto has too much time on his hands. Who is paying him for this impressive work?

[pa_dweller]

... recognition devices can be fooled using a combination of low cunning, cheap kitchen supplies and a digital camera

So, is it that much more of a step for some enterprising hobbyist to come up with a technique to fool these newfangled retinal scan devices? Just wondering.

[Hoosier Patriot]

Let the cries for banning Gummi Bears, super glue, consumer available printed circuit boards, and Photoshop begin!

[aruanan]

Matsumoto tried these attacks against eleven commercially available fingerprint biometric systems, and was able to reliably fool all of them.

Noted cryptographer Bruce Schneier, the founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, described Matsumoto's work as more than impressive.

"The results are enough to scrap the systems completely, and to send the various fingerprint biometric companies packing," said Schneier in yesterday's edition of his Crypto-Gram newsletter, which first publicised the issue. ®

Ha ha ha ha ha. But I guess this will give more impetus to the use of retinal scans.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

This may put an end to that supermarket experiment down in Texas (I think) that is allowing people to check out using their fingerprints as ID.

[Dialup Llama]

Of course the problem is in getting the cooperation of someone with a valid fingerprint. There could be some validation on top of the fingerprint scan. Ex: facial geometry plus fingerprint. Or simply take the temp of the "finger" being validated or briefly measure it for blood pressure.

[TaxPayer2000]

cutting off a finger of someone with access seems so much easier to me