Andrew Gabriel wrote:

A day's plastering with no barrier cream, and you'll have no
finger prints for a couple of weeks. Bricklaying is probably
equally effective.

In fact there is a multitude of areas in which the current biometrics
fail. Many fingerprint scanners will not cope with many Asian races
(ridges are two fine) as well as the aforementioned bricklayers etc.
Many afro caribian eyes are not sufficiently distinct for iris scanners
to work. There are a wide range of others with similar problems before
you get onto medical conditions. Blunket himself could not be iris
scanned for example.

There has been loads of coverage on the whole fiasco he

http://forms.theregister.co.uk/searc...+cards&x=0&y=0


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Cheers,

John.

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