Biometrics

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Fairlight
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 2:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: Biometrics
> 
> With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
> > 
> > And therein lies the science ("art"?) of biometrics.
> 
> Art is closer.
> 
> > How do you think the FBI does things?  You don't think that 
> in today's 
> > world of computers, that they manually scan every 
> fingerprint card for 
> > a match, do you?  (That's what they used to do in pre-computerized 
> > days.) Forty years ago, they came up with methods to categorize 
> > fingerprints, enter that data into the computer, narrow the 
> field down 
> > to only a few possible hits, and then manually searched those few.  
> > Over the decades, this technique has been refined to the 
> point where 
> > the computer can now generate the biometric data itself, 
> and narrow it 
> > down to either one or zero hits.
> 
> Yeah, and it worked so well recently:
> 
>      
> http://www.policeone.com/police-products/investigation/articles/87378/
> 
> I'd bet he never received even a mild apology, much less damages.
> 
> mark->
> --
What I find interesting about that article is that as the database of
fingerprints get larger, the commonly held belief that no two people have the
same prints may prove to be false.

Up till now, there has been no way to compare such a large sample of finger
prints.

This may be like "an infinite number of monkeys typing ............. Etc.

We will just have to wait an and see. (and hope our own prints don't match some
else's)

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting