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The days of using credit cards or paper money are coming to an end. I have waited anxiously for the time when fingerprint technology would start to become mainstream in society. Not only will it reduce the need to print up money, as time goes on, but it will also alleviate fraud for people who choose to use this system.
1 posted on 06/21/2006 7:41:07 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior
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To: ritewingwarrior

...Or raise finger-theft.


2 posted on 06/21/2006 7:48:00 AM PDT by YoungHickey ("Those who say it can't be done should not interupt those doing it.")
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good discussion of this issue here, previous posting
3 posted on 06/21/2006 7:48:54 AM PDT by APRPEH (You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.)
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To: ritewingwarrior

See www.authentec.com

FYI, I was the founding VC of this company.


5 posted on 06/21/2006 8:01:44 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: ritewingwarrior
So if it reads the finger print how long before we counterfeit fingers?
6 posted on 06/21/2006 8:02:42 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Red is good)
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To: ritewingwarrior
People either love it or think it's a sign of the coming apocalypse

Sign? Sign? We don't need no steenkin' sign.

7 posted on 06/21/2006 8:04:04 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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Duplicating another's fingerprint and fooling a biometric scanner is a simple process that any high-school student could do. It's been proven better than 50% effective too.

The technology isn't up to protecting my bank account yet.

11 posted on 06/21/2006 9:18:37 AM PDT by TChris ("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
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I just pray the thugs force my finger up to the pay device.
And let me keep my digit.

Otherwise, I do like the advance in use of biometrics.


14 posted on 06/21/2006 9:29:34 AM PDT by VOA
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Customers can pay with cash, plastic or their index finger at a new Coast to Coast Family Convenience store here.

Ironic considering how often Art Bell has had folks railing against this sort of thing on Coast to Coast AM.

Are we sure Art is in the Phillipines? Maybe that's just what he wants us to think!

17 posted on 06/21/2006 11:01:41 AM PDT by Vroomfondel
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