Re: Big Brother database

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> >Do we then have a de facto (cardless) national ID?  I think so.
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> You got it, Bunky.

There's an article in Forbes (the latest copy?) about a company that's 
making thermal scanning devices which can identify people via the pattern 
of blood vessels in their face.  The advantage of this system over 
fingerprinting is that it can be done without letting the target know he 
or she's being identified.

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> > >Do we then have a de facto (cardless) national ID?  I think so.
> > 
> > You got it, Bunky.
> 
> There's an article in Forbes (the latest copy?) about a company that's 
> making thermal scanning devices which can identify people via the pattern 
> of blood vessels in their face.  The advantage of this system over 
> fingerprinting is that it can be done without letting the target know he 
> or she's being identified.

I think I've heard of that, but does it really handle makeup, beards,
severe weather (lets see, it got to actual temp of -25F last Jan. in
Dayton, OH)?

I noticed a few weeks ago that the tarmac access doors in Chi. O'Hare
have hand scanners.  At first I thought they looked like palm
scanners but upon inspection they were obviously a simple, durable,
and effective biometrics reader.  It had 3 pins you laid the arch of your
hand against and a retro reflective surface.

It's occured to me that, to go along with my Internet Doorbell (tm) ;-),
I could put a load sensor on the porch and a line of vertical
led sensors at the porch threshhold to get a highly probable biometric 
guess of a visitor.

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