RE: GLUG: SLASHDOT: Sony's new fingerprint `credit-card-sized'sca nner

["Oelofsen, Shaun (NWP)" <SOelofsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: GLUG: SLASHDOT: Sony's new fingerprint `credit-card-sized'scanner

Most of us learnt that from a MacGyver TV serious years ago..........
It's older than most of us think.

-----Original Message-----
From: A.J. Venter [mailto:datadictator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:05 PM
To: Edge Bisset
Cc: glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: GLUG: SLASHDOT: Sony's new fingerprint
`credit-card-sized'scanner

At the computer faire, a company was demonstrating such devices, and I
proved there and then how easy they are to cheat. Some talcum powder from my
female acompanyment was lightly sprinkled over the device, making the last
fingerprint stand out quite clearly. Then I simply held a coloured plastic
bag over myhand and pressed down, the devices felt a finger, but scanned the
last print and I was inside the system secconds later.
So much for that Idea.

PS. I learned that trick from a 1993 Wesley Snipes movie - it's not even
new.
----- Original Message -----
From: Edge Bisset <edge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: GLUG: SLASHDOT: Sony's new fingerprint
`credit-card-sized'scanner

>
> > about ten people have given this same reply
> >
> > i am interpreting these replies as: `no matter what the fingerprint
> > scanner purports to do, or how it works, if it ever comes up again
> > i am rejecting the idea - because i can come up with a scant argument
> > why it may lead to fingers being cut off.'
> >
> > OBVIOUSLY the designers have though of this.
> >
> > no offense, but this is really silly
> >
> > -paul
>
>
> You've incorrectly interpreted what i was saying. I wouldn't rule it
> out. I was just pointing out what I see as a possible reason why the
> system would not take off, even though it is undoutably a well-designed
> product.
>
> Sillier to me is to presume that some designer has taken everything into
> account, and blindly accept it.
>
> Anyway, this thread is dead. (TM)
>
> Edge.
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