Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras
Found on Pink Tentacle on Saturday, 28 June 2008
With the full-scale rollout of Japan's cigarette vending machine age-verification system just around the corner, a Sankei Sports news reporter has confirmed the existence of a minor flaw: magazine photos can be used to fool the age-verification cameras on some machines.
Fujitaka admits that people may, on occasion, be able to fool the age-verification cameras with photographs - but only for the time being. The company is now working on a more advanced system that will make sure each face belongs to a real human, but they are unable to say when these new machines will be put into place.
You'd think someone would have thought of this. Then, someone might have and classified the problem as acceptable.