🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

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?

-- 
==========================================================================
Christopher Ward                                     voice: (617) 243-4112
Applications Engineer, AMEX                            fax: (617) 867-1823
Thinking Machines Corporation                       email: cward@Think.COM
==========================================================================
Remember, I'm not just the AMEX AE ... I'm also a customer!