[8263] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: UK Sunday Times: "Steal the face right off your head"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Dec 11 17:56:47 2000
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:28:23 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:
> One of the main forms of security to combat such criminals will be
> biometrics: voice recognition and the scanning of fingerprints, irises and
> face shapes to secure property. Siemens is expected to launch a fingerprint
> phone within months.
>
> In South Africa, where fingerprint security has been introduced at some
> experimental prisons, inmates recently tried to cut off the hands of their
> guards to enter protected gates.
What did I tell ya?
>
> Chris Charrington, a biometrics analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a market
> consultancy, said new technology would mean dead fingers would no longer be
> able to activate the technology.
Yeah, right. I urge (again) everyone to boycott all biometrics if they
value their extremities.
Cheers,
Ben.
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