Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Minority Report]]'', the protagonist's wife used his eye to enter the {{spoiler|prison where he's being kept. The eyes are actually his own leftover eyes after he gets a new pair of eyes to hide his identity}}. This invokes a [[Fridge Logic]] issue as of why his eyes have not been revoked access {{spoiler|after he is captured and put in prison}}.

* A healthy trade for blood samples, urine samples, fingerprints, dandruff, and hair existed in the movie [[Gattaca]]. The protagonist used this to <s>break a glass ceiling</s> fake the identity of another man, but presumably others used the black market in biologicals for more nefarious purposes.

* In [[Doom]] The Movie, Sarge takes the severed arm of a dead scientist and places the palm on an access scanner to obtain the [[BFG]].

* A robotic version appeared in ''Futureworld'', the sequel to ''[[Westworld]]''. A door has a device that scans the retinas of anyone trying to get in. To pass, you must have a pattern that only robots possess. The [[Heroes]] deactivate a robot and rip off its face, then use the face (and its eyes) to fool the device.

* Used in one of the ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' books, although they later reattach the finger via magic.

** In a later book, the fairies have one that is specifically designed to detect a pulse in order to prevent this (justified due to the fact that it was designed by [[Genre Savvy|Foaly]]).

* In the first ''Schaeffer's Last Chancers'' book, the team has to bypass a palm scanner that can detect whether the hand still has a pulse running through it. They circumvent it by removing the hand an authorized officer, then surgically attaching it to one of the team member's wrists, via some tubes so he can hide it in his pocket.

* Something similar in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Mirror Dance]]'', although here's it's a code-key embedded in a ring, not a biometric. Sounds squick-free? No, because the ring in question is apparently ''riveted to the owner's finger bone'' and quite impossible to remove...

* The ''[[Global Frequency]]'' pilot inverts the usual crisis - while storming a secret prison, Miranda Zero is completely prepared to get past the retinal scanner, but runs into trouble when it turns out to be a ''password-protected'' scanner.

* [[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]].

{{quote|'''Gan:''' Look, we just need the hand. If you want to stay attached to it (grins), do as you're told.}}

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