Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Difference between revisions

'''Kryten:''' Sir, you are ''sick!'' You are a ''sick, sick person!'' How can you possibly even conceive of such an idea?

'''Lister:''' Hey, cheer up... or I'll beat you to death with the wet end.

 

Once upon a time, infiltrating a base was pretty easy: just knock the guards out, take the keys, and get in. Fortunately, modern high-tech facilities, or in [[The Future]] have more cunning devices, and can identify the guards by unique biological features, such as handprints or retinal scans. These cunning devices are reliable, efficient, and not prone to believing just anyone who happens to be [[Dressing as the Enemy|wearing the right uniform]]. Great, huh?

 

Note that this is not about bypassing biometric scanners in in general. This is about the ''bloody'' way to get around them.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[The Joker]] once gained access to a government vault by Joker toxin-ing the guards and dragging one over to a biometric scanner. The vault, incidentally, held Doomsday.

* In a ''Weird Worlds'' story, when an elevator [[Lobo]]'s hijacked reaches his destination, the doors won't open. The elevator attendant explains that they're tied to his DNA, the sensor for which is several floors up, where they just came from, but the elevator won't go back up because he didn't have the chance to use the sensor when Lobo got on. Since there's no ceiling between them and the sensor, Lobo just blows the attendant's brains out, splattering his blood on the sensor.

 

 

== Film ==

* Simon Phoenix in ''[[Demolition Man]]'' gets through a door locked with a retina scanner by removing the authorized man's eye. Surprisingly having a pen jammed into it (to hold it with) doesn't seem to obscure the retina at all.

** Might have been an iris scanner, of course.

* In ''[[National Treasure]]'', Gates uses Chase's thumbprint he acquired to infiltrate the vault storing the Declaration of Independence.

* In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Loki and his minions use a fancy piece of stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. tech that lets them scan someone's eye and turn it into a hologram good enough to fool a retina scanner. Loki probably didn't ''have'' to [[Eye Scream|jam it right into the poor man's eye socket tho]]...

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Rebel Force: Trapped]]'' has Luke Skywalker going through an Imperial base with a stolen passcard just fine until he reaches a palm scanner. Fortunately, it was guarded by the only two stormtroopers he'd encountered in the base who were inclined to shoot first, so he could kill them and use one's hand without violating his [[Martial Pacifist]] preferences.

* In [[Kim Newman]]'s ''[[Dark Future (novel)|Dark Future]] novel ''[[Krokodil Tears]],'' via a severed hand, this is how Jessamyn bypasses the security system locking down Bronson Manolo's DeLorean in Dead Rat.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Averted in the fourth season of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', but only because Larry doesn't have a bonesaw with which to remove the dead Brennen's left hand, a fact he laments.

* The paintball game show Crossfire had one "mission" to steal a handily tanked "eyeball" to use on the enemy base biometric scanners. Since on at least one occasion the entire team were wiped on that mission, the host had a tank with his gran's eyeball in - "because who could refuse a little old lady access?"

 

== Tabletop RPG ==

* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. This is noted in ''The Neo-Anarchists' Guide to Real Life'' as a way to fool biometric security devices (such as doors and credsticks). Unfortunately the devices' designers have figured this out and altered the devices to check and see if the body part being used is still alive and attached to a body.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Xenogears]]'' has an even more cold-blooded example: {{spoiler|When Bart's enemy Shakan learns that the "Fatima Jasper" needed to unlock the Fatima Treasure is in fact the brilliant blue-green eyes possessed by members of the royal bloodline, he exhumes the bodies of Margie's parents and plucks out their eyeballs.}} It's kind of hard to call this [[Kick the Dog]], since this character [[Complete Monster|can't walk two feet without punting a puppy]]. But that doesn't mean it's not incredibly satisfying to beat the shit out of him in the [[Boss Battle]].

* In ''[[Penumbra (video game series)|Penumbra]]: Black Plague'' you get past several security scanners like this, using blood to enter the kitchen, then a hand and head to enter the library. Interestingly, one door that leads to the cryogenic freezer has a hand scanner that when you try to scan the hand you have already procured at this point, tells you that the person whom this hand belongs to is in critical condition and will not accept it.

 

== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-05-09 Suggested], though not actually used in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' during the [[Affectionate Parody|CSI parody arc]].

* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p61/ "Allow me to perform a simple amputation, and I'll be right back."] [[Subverted]] in that the dinos have figured that trick out. [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p62/ So they have to do something different].

 

== Western Animation ==

 

== Real Life ==

 

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