OT: Biometric ID

[guy keren]

gabor - i would have said "you deserve it" - but i guess it will be 
pointless :0

On 03/15/2015 02:38 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:
> BTW this anecdote might interest Yonathan Klinger and other anti-bio-id
> activists since it could be pointing a fatal flaw in the system.
>
> On 15 Mar 2015 9:26 pm, "Gabor Szabo" <gabor at szabgab.com
> <mailto:gabor at szabgab.com>> wrote:
>
>     A few weeks ago I asked to get a biometric ID. They took my finger
>     prints and asked all kinds of funny questions to make sure its me.
>     Today I went to pick up my new ID and their system could not
>     recognize my finger prints.
>
>     I got a bit nervous, but they calmed me down that I have nothing to
>     worry because the finger prints are only for the Interior Ministry
>     and they are sure the one in the system matches the one on my finger
>     and that I will only need it when dealing with Interior Ministry and
>     they will mark in the system that the fingerprints did not match
>     when I received the ID.
>
>     So apparently they have a field in the database for this information.
>
>     They offered to order a new biometric card - claiming that the
>     problem is only in the card,
>     but they can only do that if first they give the broken one to me.
>
>     So I'd have a card that can identify me "without any doubt", except
>     that the fingerprint in it cannot be matched to mine.
>
>     I asked if I could get a new non-biometric ID, but I was told I
>     cannot any more. Once I signed up for biometric ID, I cannot go back.
>
>     Madness.
>
>     Gabor
>
>
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