Cry To Beat Iris Scanners

Ant writes "The Register has an article on how crying beats iris scanners. An MP who volunteered to take part in the UK ID card trials says the iris scanner used is uncomfortable and made his eyes water... The water in his eyes actually stopped the scanner from working, and it seems long eyelashes and hard contact lenses could fox it too... So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?"

Tech meet Typical

[brolewis]

Hm, so technology meets the sterotypical cop: bat your eyelashes, cry a little and get out of the ticket.

uhh..

[Anonymous Coward]

So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?

We already have a system like that. It's called Windows.

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Emotions

[Killjoy_NL]

So the only people that can be succesfully scanned are Vulcans?
I've never seen one of those cry :)

Already do...

[guycouch]

"So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?" Yes. They're called women.

Other methods...

[Alsee]

I bet sandpaper works too!

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Re:Tech meet Typical

[Mycroft_VIII]

So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?
Going to?? This sounds like the same system the male brain works on, and has since day 1.
At least the defect in the male brain serves a purpose (at least it dose for women, us guys are just stuck with it.)

Mycroft

How to fool an eye scan

[Wasteofspace]

I recently had a bad fall and ended up in hospital (no need to mention the shopping trolley and the amount of alcohol that caused this situation)

After some standard tests, the doctor spotted that one of my iris's (sp?) was larger than the other, which had something to do with the head trauma.

Basically that means that if you need to pass an eye scan, just drink lots, grab a trolley, fall on your head, and nothing will be able recognise you by your eyes any longer as the features of them will have changed.

(probably talkin s%$t, but i could be right, right??)

Re:How to fool an eye scan

[Killjoy_NL]

"I recently had a bad fall and ended up in hospital (no need to mention the shopping trolley and the amount of alcohol that caused this situation)"

You work for MTV Jackass ???

Long eyelashes

[jamesh]

I have eyelashes long enough that they rub on most sunglasses I wear. They also blur my peripheral vision unless I open my eyes up really wide. How long do they have to be to interfere with such a system?

I've never been game to trim them though :)

My daughters have inherited the long eyelashes though and they suit them much better.

Interesting Countermeasure

[geekanarchy]

I may just start selling signs that say "Secure Area: No Chopped Onions Allowed".

Re:How to fool an eye scan

[next1]

no need to call him a jackass.

Re:Tech meet Typical

[condensate]

There are NO icebears in Antarctica. But perhaps the penguins that live there would eat you???

Re:Interesting Countermeasure

[the_womble]

Onions will be banned. Anyone caught in possession of onions will be assumed to be a terrorist and arrested for "going equiped to sabotage biometric devices".

Re:Tech meet Typical

[Anonymous Coward]

There are NO icebears in Antarctica. But perhaps the penguins that live there would eat you???
Only if you're a Windows user ;)

Re:Tech meet Typical

[JeremyALogan]

... derailed by a few tears...

sounds like the sex in my last relationship.

Re:Emotions

[NanoGator]

"So the only people that can be succesfully scanned are Vulcans?"

First they have sex more often then I do, and now they can enter places I can't? Depressing.

Re:Discrimanatory

[lavaface]

Against people without eyes. But there aren't many people without eyes I guess.

Why, oh why, is there not a "retarded" modifier?!

Re:"beats the iris scanner"

[Kris_J]

If 7% of the time the scanner can't ID you, those people will probbably just routinely be let in.

Or, every time there's an error you get a free body cavity search.

Re:Discrimanatory

[cibus]

Yes - and fingerprinting is ever so discrimanatory against people without fingers! Lets start a petition!

Re:Discrimanatory

[chimpo13]

But who's going to sign it?

Re:Tech meet Typical

[zulux]

There are NO icebears in Antarctica

There is now! All the ones that failed their ID check by crying too much.

tears and fluttering eyelashes....

[JaJ_D]

So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes?"

Yeap its called my love life :-]

Jaj

Re:...but it's still cold everywhere.

[Anonymous Coward]

While Bipolar bears are currently undergoing rehabilitation from severe mood swings.

Re:Wonder how it will cope with cataract ops

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't be a problem. In fact you're more likely to be unique enough to be readily identifiable. Should mean you can avoid the dental checks, fingerprinting, ear morphology, anal gland scenting when you want to buy a packet of crisps.

Since when

[SlashDread]

is iris scanning a "good idea"?

Or does halley-burton own some iris-scanning patents?

In that case, I, for one, welcome our new techno info patent overlords.

"Dread"

Re:Emotions

[Compact Dick]

First they have sex more often then I do, and now they can enter places I can't?

-1, Redundant.

Re:Tech meet Typical

[dew-genen-ny]

what is this sex you speak of?

Ironically...

[Digitus1337]

Ironically, the creators of these systems are probably crying over this.

Not the big issue

[mwood]

Nah, this is just what happens when starry-eyed techies meet the real world. The gadget works under perfect conditions, and now the field trials will shake out all of the practical problems that were not thought of in the lab.

I think the real impediment is going to be the natural trepidation of one who finds himself expected to submit his *eyes* to a machine which will decide whether he's good or evil.

Re:Discrimanatory

[MarkGriz]

"There are no people alive without a head"

True, but many without a brain.