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- From: cward@Think.COM (Chris Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: On beyond passwords
- Message-ID: <153kqjINNake@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:15:47 GMT
- References: <1992Jul13.163528.19666@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com> <1992Jul13.212357.9995@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul14.151750.13756@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk> <1992Jul14.200623.10360@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul14.200623.10360@news.cs.indiana.edu>, mvanheyn@mango.ucs.indiana.edu (Marc VanHeyningen) writes:
- |> Thus said alan@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay):
- |> >I've seen a film, I forget the exact title, something like runners or
- |> >catchers or someother one word title. Stars Tom Selleck as a cop, who's
- |> >job it is to disable malfunctioning robots. It had a computer accessed
- |> >by retinal pattern. Bad guy comes along with an artifical eyeball, and
- |> >puts it up to the sensor. The sensor picks up the artifical eyeball's
- |> >retinal pattern. Bad guy is into system.
- |> >
- |> >If a film can pick up on the obvious problem, then how long until
- |> >the real bad guys pick it up?
- |>
- |> Not only that, but there was a Bond movie, I think it was "You Only Live
- |> Twice," way back in the 60s, where Bond has fake fingerprints put on
- |> skinlike substance covering his real fingers so he can imitate somebody
- |> else's fingerprints. How long until the real bad guys pick it up?
- |> Obviously dusting for prints at the scene of a crime is a waste and
- |> should not be used.
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- The movie was "Diamonds are Forever". Also, an eyeball fake was done in
- "Never Say Never". Any security system is easy to bypass in Hollywood,
- especially if you are a writer or have MCS (Main Character Syndrome).
-
- Surely, you forgot a smiley in there somewhere?
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