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Japanese Invent Seizure-Inducing Anti-Burglar Device – Got Epilepsy Symptoms? Better Not Burglarize!

Flatulent One — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:40:28 +0000

The Japanese have come up with a security device that activates when someone breaks into your home–it sounds an audible alarm and flashes extremely bright flood lights in a sequence and timing specifically designed to trigger a seizure in someone with Photosensitive Epilepsy. So the idea is…you hope, on the extremely unlikely chance, that the burglar has epilepsy and if he doesn’t, oh well it’s still a loud-ass alarm like every other one out there? This is just too good

Yay!!! And there’s a movie of it in action, too!

Thanks to Gizmodo for this one.

Additional Resources:

Personality And Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Epilepsy and Literature Reviews On Epilepsy Via Wikipedia

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How To Crack A Safe : World Safecracking Champion Takes Down Bank Vault In 5 Minutes 19 Seconds (video)

Flatulent One — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:09:17 +0000

How To Crack A Safe, with Jeff Sitar

Keep in mind that he’s doing this entirely BY TOUCH–no drilling, no x-ray machines, no thermic lance, just his fingers. Jeff Sitar is, essentially, the world’s greatest living safecracker. He has won the Lockmaster’s International Safecracking Competition SEVEN times.

In this video from the Discovery Channel show ‘More Than Human’, they have Jeff set up with 3 safe dials, each of which has a certain object attached to the ends of them (their spindles) which barely touches a post at a specific number on the dial: one dial, the easiest one,

has a toothpick attached to it, another dial has a post-it note attached to it, and the third, and most difficult one, has a feather attached to it.

The next thing they do is have him try cracking a locked gun safe, which he does in 4 minutes and 57 seconds, and lastly they set him up at a real bank in New Jersey (they won’t say which one) to see if he can crack their vault: 5 minutes and 19 seconds. Cool

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you would like to know more about safe cracking I highly recommend Matt Blaze’s Safecracking for the Computer Scientist, which WILL give you the essentials on how to crack a standard Group 2 mechanical safe lock by touch, aka manipulation, like Jeff Sitar just demonstrated above.

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Mythbusters Hacking A Fingerprint Scanner

Flatulent One — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:22:28 +0000

This is pretty cool, the Mythbusters bypass a fingerprint scanner with, essentially, a photocopy of the finger of the authorized user, which they obtained by dusting, and they end up bypassing the galvanic sensor (detects and confirms the presence of finger acid) by licking it, lol.

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