{"id":447,"date":"2002-05-16T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/05\/16\/447.html"},"modified":"2002-05-16T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2002-05-16T17:22:41","slug":"fun-with-biometrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/05\/16\/fun-with-biometrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with biometrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpane.com\/crypto-gram-0205.html#5\">article<\/a> in the <cite>Crypto-Gram<\/cite> crypto\/security newsletter about a Japanese cryptographer who's developed a way to cheaply and easily create artificial fingers out of gelatin that will fool fingerprint scanners 80% of the time.  He can create these fake fingers based on fingerprints left on a piece of glass.  So much for biometrics.  And you thought <cite>Mission: Impossible<\/cite> was fiction!<\/p>\n<p>(A friend pointed out some time ago that the other problem with biometrics as security systems is that they create a market for the body part in question.  If my fingers are the only thing that will open a door, then my fingers will be in demand among those who want to get through that door.  Ditto for eyes and retina scans, and so on.  Gross but true.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute article in the Crypto-Gram crypto\/security newsletter about a Japanese cryptographer who&#8217;s developed a way to cheaply and easily create&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}