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azurelunatic) wrote2015-04-04 03:00 am
azurelunatic) wrote2015-04-04 03:00 am
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One spoilery technical thought about Kingsman
It's very apparent that Kingsman, in the finest tradition of the super-technospy-thriller genre, is stuffed full of tomorrow-and-several-weeks-later technology. The bad guy wears what looks like a full-on Google Glass; everybody else with super spy glasses is a leeetle more subtle.
And my favorite part:
There's a scene where Gazelle is chivvying Valentine through a process involving the huge desk which will later prove to be his Console of Evil, where he has to hold his hand steady on the handprint area where clearly it is hot and painful and he asks why he has to do this thing. Gazelle reminds him that well, he did want biometric security on it...
I know that this has alternate readings, but I firmly choose to believe that the reason it is so painful is because it's not reading his handprint, it's rewriting his handprint. If copies of his previous handprint are floating around, his security is compromised. Therefore, if he wants to be the only one who can activate his Console of Evil, he needs a fully unique and different handprint. Which has got to be a painful process.
It's not a new criticism of biometric security methods, but I was happy to see something you could take that way in this.
And my favorite part:
There's a scene where Gazelle is chivvying Valentine through a process involving the huge desk which will later prove to be his Console of Evil, where he has to hold his hand steady on the handprint area where clearly it is hot and painful and he asks why he has to do this thing. Gazelle reminds him that well, he did want biometric security on it...
I know that this has alternate readings, but I firmly choose to believe that the reason it is so painful is because it's not reading his handprint, it's rewriting his handprint. If copies of his previous handprint are floating around, his security is compromised. Therefore, if he wants to be the only one who can activate his Console of Evil, he needs a fully unique and different handprint. Which has got to be a painful process.
It's not a new criticism of biometric security methods, but I was happy to see something you could take that way in this.
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