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Re: UK Sunday Times: "Steal the face right off your head"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Mon Dec 11 21:35:32 2000

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:51:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
Cc: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, "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, Bram Cohen wrote:

> 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 :)

But how many people will die before the crooks figure out which systems
have been upgraded and which have not?

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