Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

Apparently people with bad exczema can fail the finger print recognition software. my phone has thump print recognition that my banking app uses. Unfortunately I used a code for banking app not used elsewhere (to be really cautious) and now I've forgotton it. So I need my thump print for the banking app or I'm stuck.

* bad parent mode: Wasn't there a film where they transplanted peoples' eyes to fool iris recognition software. I remember letting DS2 watch it and ended up sitting up all night with him as he had nightmares. True karma

silvercar

At what point do you stop dreaming of the peace and quiet after your kids have left home and start worrying about an empty nest?!

We've had a term time only empty nest for two years and been fine with it. It's the finality of this that is unnerving coupled with a slow realisation that DS1 won't move home again, whereas at the time he moved out I expected him home when he was bored with living with 6 other people!

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Wasn't there a film where they transplanted peoples' eyes to fool iris recognition software. I remember letting DS2 watch it and ended up sitting up all night with him as he had nightmares. True karma

Didn't one of the Bond films have someone using contact lenses to fool the iris recognition?

michaels

Minority report tom cruise 'borrows' some eyes in order to get through a security door.

Gattica the hero has to take out his contact lenses to pass an eye scanner test and then has to cross a busy road.....

michaels

chris_m wrote: »

Didn't one of the Bond films have someone using contact lenses to fool the iris recognition?

Yep, wasn't it to put some reall nukes on a plane which was later crashed landed into the carribean sea and covered with a camoflage net?

Pyxis

Apparently a high quality image of an iris can be used to fool an iris recognition machine, so they are only used where there is supervision, like immigration control, etc.

I googled "can a disembodied eye be used for iris recognition?" but all I got was a load of info about eye drops! :rotfl:

Not sure what use eye drops would be to disembodied eyes!

I hope I haven't been flagged up onto a surveillance list, now! :rotfl:

Oh well, anyone surveillancing me is likely to die of boredom at the moment! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

... surveillance list...

So long as they don't cross-reference people you're associated with you'll be OK ... I was on the "watch list" of MI6 some years ago. The bargars were interfering with my mail would you believe! Intercepting, then interfering with. They realised I was dull ... and backed off..

They thought I might be connected with some spies they busted in the early '80s.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

So long as they don't cross-reference people you're associated with you'll be OK ... I was on the "watch list" of MI6 some years ago. The bargars were interfering with my mail would you believe! Intercepting, then interfering with. They realised I was dull ... and backed off..

They thought I might be connected with some spies they busted in the early '80s.

Jeez!

You'll have to stop meeting men in raincoats and fedoras on Waterloo Bridge! :rotfl:

How did you know they were MI6?
I wonder who they confused you with?




People I'm associated with, eh?

Well, if I'm going down, yous all going down with me! :rotfl:



Actually, that's a point. MSE could be a good way of passing on secrets in code! :rotfl:
(Looks round furtively......)

Pyxis

Yep, I think the Radio Moscow booklets might be a clue.

Plus that time when you waved at that man across the road and shouted "Hi Kim! Zdrasdvodije!"







Edited to delete quote........sorry!

chris_m

chris_m wrote: »

Didn't one of the Bond films have someone using contact lenses to fool the iris recognition?

michaels wrote: »

Yep, wasn't it to put some reall nukes on a plane which was later crashed landed into the carribean sea and covered with a camoflage net?

Crikey, didn't realise it was that far back - that was Thunderball from 1965!!!