Spy Tech, Class Eight (03/07)

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Wednesday, March 7, Period One

Once the students are seated, M indicates the absence list projected on the wall, and then immediately moves on to the lecture.


UNEXCUSED ABSENCES
BARBARA GORDON (CLASS SEVEN)


LECTURE: "Today we'll begin our unit on disguise, by discussing two technologies used to create simple and subtle disguises. It's easy enough to wear a wig or colored contacts to make very basic changes to your appearance, but there are times when you need to be more convincing, when you need to be able to fool someone who's actively investigating your identity. Santos and Blank are passing around two items to each of you. The first is a fingerprint kit. Not for taking fingerprints, but for creating false ones. The kits will copy the fingerprint of someone else, and produce fine latex replicas that you wear over your own fingers. The fakes don't have a very long lifespan, but they're quite useful when you know you're going into a situation where you've got to maintain a false identity as another person.

"The second item is a voice changer. Just as the fingerprint kit copies someone else's fingerprints, this item copies a person's voice-print, and then alters your own voice to match it. Again, it isn't something you'd want to use long-term, but it can be very useful when you need an extremely convincing disguise, or for use in telephone communications."

CLASS ACTIVITY: "Today, I want you to use the remainder of the class period to practice with the fingerprint kit. Pair up and take the prints of one of your classmates and create fakes for yourself, and then use the fingerprint testing materials in the box on my desk to take and test latent fingerprints, so that you can demonstrate for yourselves how they work."

ASSIGNMENT: "Your assignment for next week is to take home one of the voice changers. Copy someone's voice, and then use the voice changer to disguise yourself as that person. I expect all of these to be returned next week, and if I find out that any of you have used the voice changer to cause trouble or to get someone else in trouble, you'll have detention and an F for the assignment. Next week, we'll meet in the Danger Shop."

[NOTE: Standard disclaimer for the assignment: please don't use it to cause undue mischief, and make certain you get OOC permission from the player before copying their voice.]

[ooc: Yeah, I said last week that they'd be meeting in the Danger Shop this week. I lied. Next week, totally meeting in the Danger Shop, though. Kindly wait for the OCD is finished. Class is in session!]


Syllabus
Class Roster
Linkdrop for classes

[ETA A NOTE FOR RADIO: Contents of M's conversation with Annette are NFB please.]

Comments

SIGN IN

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Give yourself a villain name, perhaps?

Re: SIGN IN

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia "the Nose" Santos

[ooc: chyeah, I dunno. It sounded good]

Re: SIGN IN

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Big Dick Casablancas

Yeah, so what if he jacked his father's nickname? No one else knows that.

CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Play with the fingerprint maker and/or talk with your classmates.

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Dick was playing with the fingerprint maker. Yeah, he was going to end up with latex all over him. Not dirty

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette let a glob of latex fly purposefully towards Dick's head.

Snorting, she bent her head back over her own work because it was so not her who did it.

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker was wondering how to get one of these for herself. Short of asking M for one, and since she didn't have a definite need for one right now, that might have been pushing it.

But still.

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders was kind of fascinated by the fingerprint maker. It was a lot more sophisticated-looking than the one he'd caught on some TV show last week . . .

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

...a little glob of latex suddenly found itself flying through the air, towards Anders' forehead.

Holy Crap!

Annette quickly lowered her head, seemingly intent on her work.

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker started to hit buttons on the voicechanger, and played back a little of M's voice, then Nadia's. "Hmm. Say something, Daisy."

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John messed around with the fingerprint maker, wondering if he could leave no fingerprints at all.

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac is always a fan of technology, and this technology is no exception. She made a couple of copies of her own fingerprint, and attempted to use them to gain access to her laptop through the fingerprint recognition system.

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette was completely fascinated by the fingerprint maker and really wanted one for herself. You know, just in case she needed to be somebody else in a sneaky, deceptive way.

She started messing with the latex...

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna was rather fascinated with this whole idea, but was vaguely worried about how her mind was flitting towards how this could be used to get away with a lot of crimes as she worked with it rather than how it could help her try to solve crimes...

Re: CLASS ACTIVITY/CHATTER

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger always wore gloves, just as a matter a habit.

So the idea is kind of amusing to him.

TALK TO M

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Ask questions about today's topic, or just questions in general. Or give her a hard time, if you really want detention on Saturday.

Re: TALK TO M

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, M." Annette said as she approached her desk.

Re: TALK TO M

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

"Hargrove," M replied, with a curt nod. "What can I do for you?"

TALK TO THE TAs

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Blank and Santos are here to answer the questions you're too afraid to take to M. Or possibly to mock you.

Re: TALK TO THE TAs

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was messing with the finger print kit. Possibly trying to trick Marty into letting her get his finger prints.

What? It's a class assignment that she can do without having to worry about it affecting her braced shoulder. Give her a break.

OOC

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Wow...short OCD today.

Seriously, pleeeeaaasse don't use the voice changers for nefarious purposes! (Unless you get admin permission, and M's permission, and sign an affadavit, and give a DNA sample...)

Re: OOC

[nadiathesaint]

Drat, there goes my devious scheme for Nadia to use materials handed out in class to impersonate M.

*shuffles off to do something boring like, pretend to be Pippi or some such thing.*

Re: OOC

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Heee!

Okay, you totally have my permission to impersonate M, although you might want to wait until after week's class, which will make it much much easier. ;)

Re: OOC

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

So... one can't call up Phale or M with a bad Scottish accent pretending to be James Bund?

Re: OOC

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger knows no other purpose but that of the nefarious!