geometrik finger print

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Jul 28 10:11 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, 
Enrique Arredondo sent this to stdout: 

> Better use the following device, saves you printing badges and
> messing with fingerprints.

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/3056162.stm

You don't "mess with fingerprints" any more than you store
the retinal scans.    I'd like to know more about them and what
fail safe measures are there so that something can't go wrong and
put out eye-damaging emissions.

If you've ever read the computer risks digests you will see that
many technological advances that couldn't go wrong, have gone
wrong, and in several cases has caused death, and in others fairly
heavy property damage.

And palm-scanners are also effective.

And for being sure just WHO you are in a hospital there is 
talking of implanting RFID's in patients. Hopefully those >might<
prevent mis-dosing of patients - but there is always the human 
element involved.



> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> To: "dayone" <dayone at bright.net>
> Cc: "Nancy Palmquist" <nlp at vss3.com>; "fp no spam, fplist nospam"
> <filepro-list at nospam.celestial.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:30 AM
> Subject: Re: geometrik finger print
> 
> 
> > dayone wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >The device is a Biometric device not a geometrik device.
> > > >
> > > >I know it is still new but you are getting it very wrong.
> > [...]
> > > Yes, but,
> > >
> > > it reads a geometrik pattern of the print.
> > >
> > > A local bank is advertising and telling customers that its new hand
> reading
> > > device is a "geometric" reading device to avoid using the words
> > > "fingerprint" or "hand print" which seems to scare some people.  They
> are
> > > not referring to it as a geometric hand/finger print reading device.
> > >
> > > In showing it to two different people (not at same time) I have
> explained
> > > that it is a bio-metric sketch of their fingerprint NOT the actual
> finger
> > > print.  They did not comprehend and did not want me to have their
> > > fingerprint in my computer.  When I described  it as a geometric pattern
> of
> > > their fingerprint, they were OK with that idea.
> > >
> > > Just a variation that may be required when demonstrating the system.
> > [...]
> >
> > Well, "geometric" is still the wrong term.
> >
> > Also, it's not a "biometric sketch of their fingerprint", but rather a
> > biometric description of the features of their fingerprint, and not the
> > print itself.  The fingerprint image itself is not stored anywhere.
> >
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