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Security at Your Fingertips - Part - C

Some of the following passages contain a mistake. Others don't.

When the passage is correct, type the words : "no mistake" in the space provided. When the passage contains a mistake, type the whole sentence once you have corrected it in the space provided. Please make sure you are using the right punctuation!

1. As I tried out the device, I cried, "This is so much cool!" rather loudly.

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2. This outburst attracted the attention of my colleague George Mussel, who rushed into my office to see what all the fuss was about.

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3.George insisted on recording his own fingerprint on the Vance's laptop.

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4. The system allows several users to share a computer yet keep their files private.

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5. Then George, who is a very inquisitive character, tried to figure out of a way to fool the system.

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6. First he did a copy of his fingerprint using a piece of Scotch tape and ran the imprint over the sensor.

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7. But because the device uses several LEDs shining in different directions, it obtains a three-dimensional image of a fingerprint and hence can't be fool by a two-dimensional copy.

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8. George, however, was undeterred. He went to his office and returned a few seconds later with a piece of orange putty from one of the toys on his windowsill.

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9. He moulded the putty to his finger to create three-dimensional copy of his fingerprint and ran it over the sensor.

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10. Interesting, James Bond used a similar technique in the 1971 movie Diamonds Are Forever.

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11. Agent 007 managed to pose like one of Blofeld’s henchmen by wearing a set of false fingerprints fashioned by Q, the gadget wizard of the Bond films.

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