From: Alex Strasheim <alex@omaha.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 09:07:03 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Big Brother database
Message-ID: <199412141707.LAA00490@omaha.omaha.com>
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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.

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Alex Strasheim | finger astrashe@nyx.cs.du.edu
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