From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:51:04 -0800 (PST)
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: STE_pup
Message-ID: <199702120251.SAA04696@toad.com>
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Lucky Green wrote:

>Fingerprint readers tend to work regardless if the finger is attached to a
>body or not. All that fingerprint readers will do is increase the damage to
>those relying on ever increasing, but misguided, methods of authentication.
>See the rise in "identity theft" since SSN's began to be used for
>identification.

Oracle claims they've solved the lopped or faked pinkie problem by verifying 
other biometry. One device IDs BO. None invade privacy the snakes hiss.

What next, BS detectors? Nah, that'd kill commerce and law and government
and true love and blind faith in supreme-gold-fool.