Biometrics

[Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services]

> >
> > How do you think the FBI does things?
> 
> Sloppily, and incredibly inaccurately.

	Witness the U.S. attorney who was recently (hopefully falsely)
linked to the bombing in Spain based on a partial fingerprint.  There's not
much doubt that he wasn't involved in it, but he's still considered under
suspicion. 

	On the other hand, the day care where I used to send my children has
used a hand scanning device for more than 10 years now to allow people into
the building.  After they got all of their employees and the parents
recorded into the database, they asked several hundred of their employees
(large insurance company) to attempt to gain entry into the building.  None
of the non-registered people were able to do so.

	They still use the system to record when parents arrive to drop off
and pick up their children.  I spoke with the person who handles the
accounting, and they say that the system has worked MUCH better than the old
electronic timeclock, mostly because it is wired to the door lock.

	There is one big problem.  Parents are told NOT to hold the door
open for other parents, and that they HAVE to register their hand scan
whenever they drop off or pick up their children, but sometimes one parent
will hold the door for another parent, and that 2nd parent fails to get
scanned.  

	The parents still have to pass by the security desk, where they are
photo-identified, but the daycare feels it still adds an additional level of
security to the general environment, without putting an undue burden on the
parents.