The Chaos Computer Club, in an inspired hack to draw attention to some of the idiocies of biometric IDs, lifted the fingerprint of the German Interior Minister
they then published it, in their newsletter, on a plastic film for use as fake biometric on an ID scanner.
With instruction on how to do it with any set of lifter fingerprints, of course.
h/t y-ranter
read the rest of the y-ranter on some other shenaningans, including the underage arms supplier for the Pentagon, and the Mahdi army acquiring some Russian SAMs
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"In the beginning...
...was the command line!"
Now, there is Goosh!
The unofficial google shell.
All the power of google with the cuddly familiarity of the csh interface.
Sweet.
It was a rough week for the UK, with record floods and terrorist attacks in the middle of a change of government.
As the Y-Ranter points out, the bureaucracy dealt with it in stride
25 years ago I flew to the UK, after having been completely out of touch with all media for a week, and found the country was at war.
Undecidable financial contracts, crowdsourcing nepotism and explaining the Nobel Prize.
We got it all...