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To: Girlene
Bingo. What happens if your biometric data is compromised? You can't get a new palm.

I'm glad that you get it - some people just don't. As biometric data is utilized in more and more ways, any access to it is potentially a violation of your privacy. Whether it gives a thief or hacker access to medical records, financial data, or lunch menus, it is a large net that can be pieced together by intelligent criminals and people with less than honorable intentions.

Anyone with a reasonable set of skills can take a fingerprint or palm print and reproduce them using latex, silicon or other materials. Apply that replica to their hands, and boom, now they are you! It's not Sci-Fi or only worthy of a James Bond movie anymore. It is easily accomplished.

27 posted on 10/05/2012 7:17:20 PM PDT by RobertClark (Be prepared, be polite, be professional and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: RobertClark

I dunno... It would take quite a high level skill set to reproduce finger pritnts, palm prints in silicon.

Oh, you meant SiliconE.

Nevermind

;-)


30 posted on 10/05/2012 7:24:26 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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