Fingers, faces and gummi bears

[Kevin Robert Dean]

a supermarket in a town not too far from Houston has
its customers pay, not with cash or a credit card--but
by scanning their fingerprints:
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1411509/>

However, someone figured out a way to use gummi bears
to trick such devices:
<http://online.securityfocus.com/news/416>

Meanwhile, the face scanning technology used in
airports is a dismal failure:
<http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52563,00.html>

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Kevin Dean
Buffalo, NY
ICQ: 8616001
AIM: KDean75206
Buffalo Activist Network
http://www.buffaloactivist.net
http://www.yaysoft.com

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