Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Difference between revisions

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'''Kryten:''' Sir, if mechanoids could barf, I'd be onto my fifth bag by now...|''[[Red Dwarf]]'', "The Inquisitor"}}

 

* In one of the [[Women of the Otherworld]] books, the doors of the top secret facilities are unlocked by fingerprint readers embedded in the door knobs. Our hero ambushes a guard and applies the logical solution to their problem.

* Discussed in ''[[The League of Peoples Verse|Ascending]]''. Uclod demonstrates his [[Living Ship]]'s security features to Oar, including the fact that it won't operate until confirming his DNA, palmprint, and fingerprints. Oar is unimpressed:

'''Uclod:''' Hush! Right now. Not a word. }}

* In ''[[Isaac Asimov|Robots and Empire]]'', two villains disagree on how best to perform their mission. One has a gun. The other's thumb is needed to work the required equipment. The armed one states that if he'll blow off the other's head off, the thumb will be quite intact.

* [[Threat Matrix]] has a related example where Israeli agent attempts to frame a Palestinian agent for a hit by wearing [[Squick|the dead man's fingers]].

* Threatened by the heroes (well, [[Anti-Hero|sort of heroes]]) so they could escape the cells of a prison ship in the second episode of ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]''.

** In another episode, Vila got round a scanner by doing the lifting fingerprints trick.

* ''Kessler'' (a 1981 spin-off of ''[[Secret Army]]'') has the title character informing his fellow war criminals in South America that they can't access his Swiss bank accounts by cutting off his hand, as the system only works with a living hand.

* In a ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode, a genetically engineered [[Super Soldier]] got around the fact that the commbadges were keyed to fingerprints by knocking out a guard and using his finger to activate it.

** In a different episode, a time traveler from the past with a stolen time machine from the future (got that?) tries to kidnap Data. Since his handprint is required to open the door, nobody has been able to get into or to even scan the inside of the craft. Once the time traveler learns that he can't incapacitate Data (due to his stolen phaser being disabled), Data subtly but effectively convinces him to give himself up...

* In the [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]] episode "Who Mourns for Morn?" a criminal from the Orion Syndicate threatens to do this to Quark, needing his thumb to sign for delivery of a package. His brother points out that they can't very well expect to be taken seriously if they use a severed thumb to sign the invoice.

* In [[Jekyll]], Hyde is obviously a bit gleeful about this one--to the point where he puts the victim's severed thumb in a lunch box and abruptly presents it to a passing scientist:

"(smiling) He'll recognize it." }}

* The husband of Ilsa Pucci from [[Human Target]] was killed for his eye, so his lawyer could get into a biometrically-sealed vault to steal his identity.