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1996-05-15 - Re: Fingerprinting annoyance

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From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960513134249.7157D-100000@grctechs.va.grci.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-05-15 11:03:24 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:03:24 +0800

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From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:03:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting annoyance
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, Mark O. Aldrich wrote:

> On Mon, 13 May 1996, Senator Exon wrote:
> > i can fill out and manipulate the card myself i just need a
> > working method.
> > is there no privacy advocate who can help me?
> 
> You can mutilate the tips of your fingers so that prints cannot be 
> acquired, but this hurts.  Badly.

	I thought Old School bank robbers used sand paper to remove their
prints before a "job". Would this mung the prints enough?

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com

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