#It figures

spockvarietyhour kiranerys-deactivated20211227

Biometric identification and authentication is FUBAR

The top image was taken at the Bundespressekonferenz (Federal Press Conference) from about 3 meters distance with a 200mm lens and a Canon Camera by a professional photographer.

Jan Krissler (starbug) also demonstrated how easy it is to fool iris scanners with high resolution photos, i.e. election posters of politicians. After being asked by the audience, he even indicated that biometric characteristics of human beings (fingerprints, irises) may be extracted from 4K Ultra-HD videos. He couldn’t go into further detail on this, because it’s part of an ongoing scientific research he is currently conducting.

The higher the resolution and light sensitivity of modern cameras (not to mention light field cameras like Lytro with variable depth of field), there is no need to physically take fingerprints or take reference pictures of irises from a very short distance. Biometric security just doesn’t exist.

Recording of his lecture (german):
http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6450/

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spockvarietyhour airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

withmywordsispeaktruth

Ok so staff just released info about this new update, and while it seems like an effective way to cut off any lurking, hateful anons, or the possibility of anyone seeing your blog that you don’t want to, it also cuts off a lot of other useful features as well.

I conducted a little to test to see how it works by turning off the “show this blog on the web” feature on this blog, and using a dummy blog to see how it works.

First things first, using this feature eliminates your URL completely. You as the blog owner are not even able to view your blog at the URL address. I tried WHILE I was signed in to my blog and it still would not allow me.

Obviously if you as the blog owner can’t see it also means no one, including mutuals, can see your blog either. There are only two ways you can still view a users content: The mobile side view and posts that come across your dash.

This feature also eliminates the use of read more’s. When you click the read more link it takes you to the permalink, which is part of your URL, which no longer exists.

You are still able to search within tumblr for blogs and follow people and people can search for you, but as I said above, even if you are following a person or they are a mutual, they will never be able to view your actual blog page again.

If you are not comfortable losing your blog page completely, even from your own personal view, then I would not suggest using this feature.

madqueenzelly

Signal boosting this, because of a lot of blogs I follow have done this, and now I can’t read half the shit they post as a result. I don’t think they realise the issue with the read more thing.

It figures not so useful after all I thought it was just to make it invisible from outside!

spockvarietyhour percychekov-deactivated20180908

dailydot

Why is Gamora missing from Guardians of the Galaxy merchandise?

Exit polls indicate 44 percent of GotG’s opening-week audience were women, yet Disney/Marvel still seems unaware or unconvinced that it can profit from this half of their audience. At San Diego Comic-Con last month, women’s T-shirts for Marvel’s upcoming Agent Carter TV series sold out in a day, with the bemused attendants saying that they hadn’t expected this kind of interest. This is after years of fans clamoring for a female-led superhero movie from anyone.

Fans have been asking, well… where’s Gamora?

the-leader-in-red

Fucking Disney/Marvel

It figures GotG Merchandising