how ironic! (look at the advertisement on the right)

http://img413.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mythbustersfingerprintfu9.jpg

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

That's funny. Sometimes contextual ads are not all they are cracked up to be.

emliv: LOL!

dag: LOL!

Nice to see this one back again. It died a little over 7 months ago and was discarded:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Beat-Finger-Print-Security

But if you think about it, stealing someone's finger print is a little harder than finding their key under a stone. So overall, yes, it's obviously not fool proof, but it is still as safe as a key, just way more convenient. And plus, remember, locks only keep the honest people out.

You're right, shatterdose. However, people who would buy something like this would most likely be well inside the upper-income bracket, and the thieves who prey on upper-income targets are smarter and more resourceful than most. Obtaining a fingerprint from their intended victims probably wouldn't be too difficult if they were determined. They could lift it off their cars, mailboxes, or even off the door handle itself and then proceed accordingly. However I believe the main point of this video is that a supposedly perfect lock was beaten in more than one way, and without great difficulty.

Shatter, something tells me that the pricetag on something like this outweighs the "convenience" of not carrying a key.

don't forget the privacy aspect to this - with the new locks comes the 'requirement' to submit your prints, and in future other biometric collection and storage will be 'required' by companies using those kinds of locks.

Upvote for the ad. Priceless! I got the same ad, and really, I'm going to go right out and buy their product! HA!

@Memorare
Wow, you conspiracy people never turn off, do you?

Wow.

what if you hurt your finger and can't enter? I'll have to see this video.

I saw this when it first aired, then I recently saw a re-run a few days ago. In the re-run, they cut out the statements about the lock having never been beaten.

Wouldn't their fingerprint be smudged onto the reader? If you clean it one day and come back the next with tape I bet you could lift a decent copy.

around 1:44 the dialogue started to mismatch with the lip movements. is this true or am i just sleepy

"well there's your problem" My favorite phrase from mythbusters other than "i reject your reality adn substitute my own." jim, when exactly did you see the "cut" version of this?

Dav, I have my DVR set to record every episode that comes on. I watched it just a few days ago, but it was probably recorded a couple of weeks or more back.

They didn't injure buster this time, so Jamie and Adam dressed buster up like a gay biker and spanked his fiberglass ass afterwards.

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