[LINK] City launches fingerprint payment program

[Adam Todd]

I can just see it.  No more rolling the victim in the street for 
their credit cards or cash, now you carry a pair if side cutters ...

I'll bet Hospital Emergency Wards will see an increased number of 
"hand and finger" injuries!

Or the really cool alterative that can't be defeated and shortly will 
be undetectable at all.

It's not hard to make a micro-thin film finger print from latex.  So 
all you need to do is have a person touch something with their 
finger, then grow the oils that remain, create the latex finger 
print, attach to finger and voila!

Although I can't do micro think in the next few hours, I have done 
complete hand and foot prints in latex that when ink printed or 
bio-scanned are identical in totality to the original marker.

Plastics have come a long way, it would be little trouble to get a 
plastic that binds to your normal skin so perfectly that "rubbing" 
the layer won't cause a removal or deterioration of the fake skin and 
it would be very hard to "detect" by most people.

Fake skins that spray on, that are made from biological materials are 
also available today and it's not really that hard to culture your 
own (well it's not impossible) and so if biological testing means 
were applied, the result would be a match regardless.  Again bound 
with micro plastics the only way to remove would be using strong 
chemical removal solvents.

I can just see it - you walk up to a register, have to wash your 
hands in solvents and then pay for your milk.




At 08:02 PM 15/10/2007, Andy Farkas wrote:
>It begins.....
>
><http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200710/20071012/article_334241.htm>
>
>"SHOPPERS in Shanghai now have a safer way to pay money as thousands
>of retailers have launched an electronic payment terminal that can
>match consumers' fingerprints with their bank accounts, Jiefang Daily
>reported today.
>
>The retailers include department stores, supermarkets, restaurants and
>entertainment venues such as Parkson Department Store and Kedi
>convenience store, the report said.