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Re: UK Sunday Times: "Steal the face right off your head"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Mon Dec 11 18:53:58 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:17:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, cryptography@c2.net
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> "R. A. Hettinga" wrote:
> >
> > 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?
The US military is switching over to biometrics, including fingerprints
and cornea scans. One of the reasons they decided to do the switch is that
newer technologies ensure that the item in front of the scanner is in fact
alive :)
-Bram Cohen
