Honest to god, my brother works in locksmithing. I moved states and needed to get a copy of the old house key to my realtor ASAP and did not want to travel or mail it - took a picture for my brother and he was able to make a working key with just the photo.
Shit’s crazy these days. My favorite “they can do that now?!” is from a 2014 article where MIT researchers videoed a bag of potato chips in a soundproof room and used the vibrations from the bag to recreate the sound.
Friend of mine demonstrated at a tech conference obtaining fingerprints from photos. Example was a someone giving a political speech, hand held up at the right angle and a powerful enough camera.
The idea of censoring key teeth is both hilarious and terrifying.
Honest to god, my brother works in locksmithing. I moved states and needed to get a copy of the old house key to my realtor ASAP and did not want to travel or mail it - took a picture for my brother and he was able to make a working key with just the photo.
Shit’s crazy these days. My favorite “they can do that now?!” is from a 2014 article where MIT researchers videoed a bag of potato chips in a soundproof room and used the vibrations from the bag to recreate the sound.
https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804
FWIW, the sound they are recreating is a conversation held near the bag not the bag itself crinkling.
Irs early and I haven’t had coffee yet. I had to look it up.
Friend of mine demonstrated at a tech conference obtaining fingerprints from photos. Example was a someone giving a political speech, hand held up at the right angle and a powerful enough camera.
So Musk’s salute was really just a demonstration of DOGE’s transparency?
But very necessary in this day and age.
They got Merkels fingerpring from a photo.
That’s impressive IMO.