New Keyless Entry System For British Parliament!
The British government has abandoned plans to use a fingerprint scanner to allow entry into the British Parliament. Because a terrorist would be likely to use the above master key if he really wanted to get in.
Plans to use fingerprint scanners to control entry to the Commons have been abandoned over fears that terrorists could cut off an MP's finger to get inside.
Security advisers have warned that a suicide bomber would have no compunction about removing a politician's finger to fool scanners.
The decision appears to stem from concerns that MPs could become real-life victims of scenes played out in last week's episode of BBC1's MI5 drama Spooks - in which agent Ros Myers, played by Hermione Norris, removed a dead man's index finger in order that his fingerprint-encoded laptop could be accessed.
The Commons security experts also said the available technology was unreliable and could not cope with dirty or sweaty hands, or those with particular racial characteristics.
Parliamentary security sources confirmed the decision last week, despite Government plans to impose the same fingerprint-recognition system on the public with ID cards and biometric passports.
They're the lawmakers. They are above the laws they impose upon others. Just a hint: retina prints won't work, either. Right, Mr. Yukkamoto?
World news | Gaius Saturday, 20 October , 2007
By terrence, Saturday, 20 October , 2007 @ 6:40 pm
One of the security gurus at a compnay I used to work for said you can get fingerprint readers that also look for a pulse and/or temperature, so they can tell if the finger is attached to a living body. (It was relatively big insurance company, and the security folks had to be good at what they did.) These ones are probably very expensive.
I asked her about this after I heard about a guy in Hong Kong or Singapore who lost a finger and his very high end vehicle; she also said that is this why the fingerprint only readers are falling out of use. I guess the Brits are a bit behind tecnhnogy’s bleeding edge (as it were).
By Uncle Pinky, Saturday, 20 October , 2007 @ 6:59 pm
People tend not to wipe off the screen leaving a wonderful, oily, whorl-perfect prit for the next person to come along. A rubber glove full of warm water will do the trick 9 times out of ten. Think the lads at Mythbusters did one of their crime specials with this element. If I recall correctly, they were pretty disgusted at the ease with which these could be bypassed. I think they just xeroxed Grant’s print or some such.
Pretty sad, really.