[91189] in Cypherpunks
Re: Big Brother Is Watching ATMs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pomes)
Mon Dec 1 16:01:02 1997
From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 01 Dec 1997 10:50:07 EST.
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To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
cc: Jonathan Wienke <JonWienk@ix.netcom.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 11:37:16 -0800
Reply-To: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
At 10:50 EST on Monday, December 1, 1997, Vin McLellan wrote:
|G'day Jonathan,
|
| Could you please identify this "bank card company" by name, card,
|nation, etc. ?
You *could* read the newspaper...
/pbp
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Body Parts May Become a Way To Identify ATM Customers
By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Thomas J. Drury walks up to the automated-teller machine in his suburban
office and swipes his bank card. Instead of punching in a secret code,
however, he stares straight ahead. The machine verifies his identity by
looking at his eyes.
If Mr. Drury, chief executive officer of Sensar Corp., and his colleagues
have their way, this eye-scanning technology will become standard equipment
on ATMs around the world. It is being tested by NCR Corp. and Citicorp,
among others.
[...]
