[117052] in Cypherpunks
RE: On Resisting the Jackbooted Thugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Wed Aug 25 18:21:59 1999
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:05:27 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>William Hugh Murray wrote:
>> Assuming that the biometric is
>> implemented in such a way as to resist replay, getting sufficient
>> information to forge the biometric without your knowledge may be
>> particularly irksome.
>
>At CCC Camp, see http://www.ccc.de/camp/update.html for some trip reports, I
>watched somebody bypass a fingerprint scanner with nothing but candle wax, a
>cigarette paper, and spit. Admittedly, that's the low end. Still, I have yet
>to see a fingerprint scanner that can't be fooled using less than $50 in
>parts and a few hours of time. Only two times five minutes of these hours
Sand paper and resin should do the trick "Sorry, fixing my
vette yesterday, got some of it on me...". Helps if you have a vette,
or a motorcycle with fiberglass panels/fairing.
--
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country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a
product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of
rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan
Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
