FBI takes biometrics database proposal to U.K.

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You are wrong...

"Although biometric databases currently exist mainly for those with criminal records, there is sound reasoning in using fingerprints or iris scans as the primary ID for everyone:
It is the one form of ID that is currently impossible to forge."

Fingerprints *can* be forged...rather easily, it happens. I remember reading something in one of Bruce Schneier's "Cryptogram" emails about this - someone who wanted to prove the ability to do so, got some common materials from a drug store, made a fake "rubber thumb"...and successfully fooled a biometric print reader with it. Took him all of an hour to make it, from commonly available materials.

Posted by: techboy_z   Posted on: 01/17/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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