From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 12:57:13 PST
To: alex@omaha.com (Alex Strasheim)
Subject: 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.
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> 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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