Disrupting your Biometric Data

The ID Card system will record 3 types of biometric information:

• fingerprints


• iris scan


• head and shoulder photograph

So I would suggest trying to disrupt all three.

1. Disrupt your fingerprints
   
   • Use sandpaper - sand your fingerprints off
   
   
   • Soak your hands in water for as long as you can until the skin turns prune-like - try to keep your hands wet throughout the entire ID Card application process (Keep them in plastic bags full of soaking wet towelettes, etc.)
   
   
   • Superglue your fingers together - "Sorry I was making a model plane and the glue spilt and went everywhere."
   
   
   
2. Disrupt Iris / Retina scanners


• Use drugs to expand your pupils - this will make it harder to scan your retina as there will be less of it visible. I won't tell you what to use as a lot of this stuff can be seriously dangerous.


• Wear contact lenses - preferably slightly altered lenses with scratches and colouring on them. Mind you don't put anything in your eye that will damage it permanently.


• Make your eyes water uncontrollably - again you could do yourself some permanent damage, so be careful. Pepper spray and Mace would both probably work really well, but I have no intention of spraying myself in the eyes with them. Cut raw onions will do the trick. Try not to lose the contacts though.



3. Change shape of face / head.
   At the moment the Passport Service will accept photos you send to them, and they never even see you, so you could just try handing over some shocking quality photo - like that from a camera phone on lowest setting...
   Apparently your ears are apparently the least likely to change as they're made of cartilage, so fat doesn't affect them, and age does little to the shape. Bear this in mind.


• Use stage makeup - you will not look normal


• Men grow a full beard, then shave it all off after the photos are done. Hairy women do likewise.


• Grow your hair to cover your ears.


• Pad your cheeks with wadding - you should be able to get it from any stage makeup or costume shop or just use cotton wool


• Gurn in the pictures

The idea is for your whole appearance to change almost the instant you leave the ID Processing centre - you could even try doing a Superman and getting changed in a phone box outside...

As an added bonus: it has been suggested by some that the system might not be able to cope with names more than 300 characters long, even if it can someone still has to input the data...
So change your middle name to the entire works of Shakespeare or the Encyclopedia Britannica or if you're feeling keen Wikipedia or Linux 2.6 kernel source code, make sure you throw in a few spelling mistakes so they can't just copy and paste.
It has also been suggested that you could try to hack the system using programming code as part of your name, but I don't know what kind of stuff you could use as I'm not a programmer. I don't imagine del *.* would work...

Wafty