IT: Aussie Kids Foil Finger Scanner With Gummi Bears
"An Australian high school has installed 'secure' fingerprint scanners for roll call for senior students, which savvy kids may be able to circumvent with sweets from their lunch box. The system replaces the school's traditional sign-in system with biometric readers that require senior students to have their fingerprints read to verify attendance. The school principal says the system is better than swipe cards because it stops truant kids getting their mates to sign-in for them. But using the Gummi Bear attack, students can make replicas of their own fingerprints from gelatin, the ingredient in Gummi Bears, to forge a replica finger. The attack worked against a bunch of scanners that detect electrical charges within the human body, since gelatin has virtually the same capacitance as a finger's skin."
Okay, what show had them foiling palmprint scanners with fruit rollups? CSI?
I am looking at lawn mower ads because mine will not start, despite new gas, a new spark plug, some fairly inept efforts to clean the carburetor, encouraging words and swear words.
A person on Craig's List is selling a "self repellent mower."
A person on Craig's List is selling a "self repellent mower."
I guess that's why they want to get rid of it.
I guess that's why they want to get rid of it.
Yeah, it's pretty bad when something is so repellent that it repels itself.
A photo of some cute pirate toddlers: [link]
I love Sara's teacher this year. They've been learning about bats and spiders all week, and this week's spelling words include:
vampire
witch
candy
ghost
baseball
Can we just post pictures of pretty or pop culture on the tumblr? Or other shallow stuff?
Well, I just put up a picture of a surfing dog, so I'm gong to go with yes.
It's weird that I'm defriending both right-wingers and left-wingers on Facebook. Anyone who does the textual version of screaming like Sam Kinnison automatically gets axed. I don't have to deal with that, so I won't.
That's what the hide button is for!
