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2005-01-15 Home Front: WoT

Homeland Chief Wants Biometric Standards

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Posted by Fred 2005-01-15 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But isn't fingerprinting a gross violation of human rights? CAIR sez so....

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-15 3:00:04 AM|| 2005-01-15 3:00:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Some of the guys I work with are into biometrics...
They say it doesn't work that well for picking some baddie out of the crowd, but it's pretty good at confirming an identity in a small population (like one).

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-15 3:43:54 AM|| 2005-01-15 3:43:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Depends on the technology being used. Facial recognition can be stymied in various ways, especially when done at a distance in crowds. Closer up (as in, say, an immigration queue where people can be told to remove hats and sunglasses) it works very well.

Fingerprint recognition can be foiled, but only remotely (i.e. if the bad guy has time to create a soft replica of the print in question and then uses that to authenticate a computer logon or a document).

Iris recognition is very accurate. Handwriting recognition is pretty decent, when done on an electronic pressure pad (even very good forgers seldom press the pen in the same way as the person whose signature they are copying).

There's some promising work on things like recognizing the characteristic walk and stances of people, not mature yet.

Posted by rkb 2005-01-15 8:57:32 AM|| 2005-01-15 8:57:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Handwriting should be a last resort - I rarely write my name exactly the same way, especially on the raised electronic pads...it's tough. I always figured that was just so they had an electronic sig on file for a purchase, not verification

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-15 12:54:05 PM|| 2005-01-15 12:54:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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