You gotta give Koreans this — they’re great problem-solvers:
A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan last year has reportedly passed through its immigration screening system by using tape on her fingers to fool a fingerprint reading machine.
The biometric system was installed in 30 airports in 2007 to improve security and prevent terrorists from entering into Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said.
Japan spent 4 billion yen to install the new system.
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“Japan spent 4 billion yen to install the new system.”
Ironically, a Japanese research team proved nearly 7 years ago that it was relatively easy to fool biometric fingerprinting systems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1991517.stm
Is there any truth to the rumor you can foil a polygraph test by putting a tack in your shoe and self inflicting discomfort while you do the test?
Yawn. That’s nothing.
Read a news article some years back about some Cubans who turned a 1957 Chevy truck into a self-propelled boat in order to come to Florida. Now that’s ingenious.
The two greatest examples of Korean ingenuity are ones which I saw in movies. One involved a paper clip which was used to short circuit an entire building floor. The other was a street flyer which was turned into a deadly weapon.
Is there any truth to the rumor you can foil a polygraph test by putting a tack in your shoe and self inflicting discomfort while you do the test?
Let me guess. You knew about this from watching Ocean’s 13, yeah?
Actually, my dad was pretty ingenious also.
I don’t know what it is called, but there’s this special tool you can buy at Home Depot where you load a bullet in it, you twist the top, and it’s supposed to make a large nail penetrate concrete. Well, my dad once actually made a primitive rifle out of this tool because he wanted to use it on some guy he thought fucked around with my sister.
It was in Ocean’s 13? Didn’t know that.
I saw it in an old Law & Order episode.
The two greatest examples of Korean ingenuity are ones which I saw in movies. One involved a paper clip which was used to short circuit an entire building floor. The other was a street flyer which was turned into a deadly weapon.
Guess which Korean movies these examples are from?
Well, for the paper-clip short-circuit trick, I would have to say “Seinfeld” season 9, episode 7.
One of the most ingenious things I ever saw was a 1950′s era Soviet eavesdropping device shown to me by a State Department representative at a college job fair looking to recruit engineers to work in securing overseas embassies.
It was a bunch of primitive looking electrical components and circuitry crammed into a long, narrow wooden box. The special thing about this device was that it was completely passive, meaning that it had no power source of its source. In other words, it was completely undetectable to bug sniffing equipment. The device derived its power from the eavesdropped voices that it was supposed to pick up.
paper clip to short the entire building floor trick was from 괴물, no?
“Well, my dad once actually made a primitive rifle out of this tool because he wanted to use it on some guy he thought fucked around with my sister.”
Sounds like your obsessiveness about protecting those “with the same blood” is inherited. Who’d have thunk.
When did I mention that this guy was a non-Korean? How do you know he wasn’t Korean? Is that all you idiotic waeguk-noms ever fucking think about? Pathetic bunch of losers.
Here, do this: cut off your dick, stuff it in your mouth, take a magic marker and write “I suck” on your forehead, get a gun and blow your brains out.
One of the most ingenious things I ever saw was the transformation of a guy from someone who wished everyone here well just a few days ago on a New Year’s thread, to someone who took a post from a single person, used it to broadly insult others, and then get strangely, graphically violent.
OMG, NetKim is having wet dreams. Bring the diapers!
Watch your language NetizenKim. I for one don’t want to read threads that come down to a swearing matches. I don’t think others do either. And if that’s how you refer to all the foreigners on this site, it’s both rude and sad.
Wow. I’m pretty sure the Soviets got that wonder technology from Henry Egerton’s 1918 patent in the US Patent Office. I know that when I joined the Navy in 1989 we (some of us, anyway) marveled over the durability of the sound-powered circuit technology.
Anyway, I don’t imagine the Soviet bug was undetectable — you still have to get the signal out of the eavesdropped area, and that would take place over wires which would still give off signals of their own.
Your Dad must be some kind of dipshit. If there’s a Home Depot, that means you live in the United States. Why build a MacGuyer rifle when you can simply buy one? Your Dad can’t be this stupid. For this reason, I call B.S. on this story.
In 괴물 the guy used the paper clip on a extension cord outlet with a surge protecter. You can’t short circuit an entire building floor like that.
#15,
You were in the Navy….You probably know a thing or two about sound-powered telephones, then.
http://www.dynalec.com/Dynalec-Sound-Powered-Telephones-How.htm
Fuck that, madar. That was funny as shit.
The killing a guy with the flyer on the street is from Nappum Namja (no hangeul on this keyboard, sorry)- a fine Kim Ki Duk production and slightly more understandable than the majority of his work.
The deadly street flyer thing isn’t original either. Ever heard of a Millwall Brick?
I’ve been rapped on the head by one of these things, and trust me, it felt like a hammer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_brick
gbnhj: lol!
Brendan, it’s called a Hilti Gun and they are about the same as 22. caliber. My old man was a contractor and had boxes of the “bullets” lying around. Actually he used them for penetrating steel I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder-actuated_tool
I remember some of the guys using them at a job site and it sounded like high noon in O.K. Corral.
Turning a Hilti Gun into a weapon wouldn’t be tough at all.
The Japanese spent 4 billion yen on the new fingerprinting system? Not what I read…
http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000188
A new biometric system for immigration screening:
¥4,000,000,000
One role of Scotch tape:
¥150
Fooling a finger-print machine:
PRICELESS
The use of tape is irrelevant. It never would have worked had the Immigration official paid attention to what the woman was doing. I can’t imagine, once he official sees tape or Band-Aid on someone’s finger, that recording the biometrics would continue. How can the print reader read one’s fingerprints if there is something covering one’s fingers? The fault lies with the Immigration official for not paying attention.
#22,
Actually, they are used for fastening wood (usually 2x4s) to cement foundations, and iron railings to a cement staircase. The different color-coded powder-casings are chosen based on the length of the stud being driven and thickness of the board used.
PS. You use a drill to penetrate steel. I think you’re confusing this tool with a revit gun, though.
I disagree someguy.
My old man’s company used Hilti guns for fastening to steel. I think it was for sheet metal roofing. Hilti guns are used for both steel and concrete fastening.
http://www.us.hilti.com/holus/modules/prcat/prca_navigation.jsp?OID=-17120
Actually, it may be a little less black and white than that. I went to Japan recently, through Haneda (the Gimpo< ->Haneda line, very handy), and the way the fingerprint reader was installed made it impossible for the immigration dude to see clearly what I was doing. His line of sight was obstructed by several items, including the back of the reader, which was slanted downwards. I could have done many things, including, for instance, applying a fake finger, or someone else’s finger, cut off (some gore is required when mentioning Japan, right?), etc… I am not even sure the fingerprint itself appears on the screen — it could be that the officer just gets a beep or an ok…
“When did I mention that this guy was a non-Korean?”
The same time I assumed that he was a non-Korean. That being never. Thanks for reading into what I read though. I assumed only that your sister was of the same blood as your Dad, kinda the basis for my comment… ooh, I could call whether she truly is truly of the same blood or not into question, but I won’t. I don’t want to send you running for your HBP pills a second day. And, just because you are a racist whose Marmot’s Hole persona I find despicable, unfairly insult others, especially your saintly mother.
“How do you know he wasn’t Korean?”
Don’t know and don’t care.
“Is that all you idiotic waeguk-noms ever fucking think about?”
Presumptuous.
“Pathetic bunch of losers.”
and insulting.
“Here, do this: cut off your dick, stuff it in your mouth, take a magic marker and write “I suck” on your forehead, get a gun and blow your brains out.”
and cheeky.
Nice imagery, but not as entertaining as imagining your racist face turning beat-red in anger as you went on your blanket anti-foreigner attack. …your true colors shining through
I meant:
And, just because you are a racist whose Marmot’s Hole persona I find despicable, *I won’t* unfairly insult others, especially your saintly mother.
#28,
Sure, you can use a powder actuated nail gun for laying out steel sheeting. I thought you were talking about something like heavy duty steel framing.
Then let me amend: It never would have worked had the print reader been positioned such that the immigration official could pay attention to what was happening. The American print readers are right in front of the official (in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis at least). No way they can’t see what is or is not happening.
I don’t recall the print readers in Narita being so out-of-line-of-sight as you say they were at Haneda. I’ll be at Narita again in another couple weeks, so I guess I’ll see just how it’s all positioned.
Actually, Darth, the reason I remember the fingerprint scanner’s position is because it was THAT odd, and because of my two other experiences with immigration fingerprint scanners, in the US (SFO) and in HK (automated immigration, aka eChannel).
When I landed at Haneda, I had forgotten about the (relatively) new fingerprinting measure, and was surprised to see the scanner. When I looked at it, it dawned on me that the position was really bad…
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