From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 05:27:20 +0800
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Subject: Re: Big Brother Is Watching ATMs
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On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Vin McLellan wrote:

> G'day Jonathan,
> 
> 	Could you please identify this "bank card company" by name, card,
> nation, etc. ?
> 
> 	Without some explicit cite of a commercial entity -- or a reference
> to some "strip-'em-naked-with-electrons" Police R&D group like the guys at
> Rome AFB -- this report sounds like another of those ID-Implant fantasies
> circulated by the guys who are bolting steel plate to their screen doors
> and programming their backyard AA to auto-target (a) Black Helicopters (b)
> which are on low-level rapid approach (c) full Oriental, Arab, and Hispanic
> troopers (c) wearing Blue Helmets.

"There are, however, two companies working on devices that examine the
human iris,
 the most notably being IrisScan who owns the patent. The technique's
major
 advantage over retina scans is that it does not require the user to focus
on a target,
 because the iris pattern is on the eye's surface. In fact, the video
image of an eye can
 be taken from several up to 3 feet away, and the user does not have to
interact
 actively with the device. Sensar, a company that has licensed the iris
scanning
 technology from IriScan hopes to position its IrisIdent product into ATMs
in the
 coming years."
http://www.ctst.com/ff_industry.html

I suggest you contact the manufacturer for more information.

-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
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