OT: Biometric ID

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkelman at gmail.com> writes:

> I personally do not trust the database, its holders, and advise anyone
> who knows me (including students in my courses) to never go into it.

I wouldn't trust it either, but let's assume for a second that we do,
and that we see benefits in biometric identification. Does it strike
anyone else as rather weird that fingerprints have been chosen as the
basis of it over all the other possible biometrics?

We leave fingerprints on just about everything we touch everywhere we
go, and they are relatively easy to lift and forge. This seems to me bad
for both privacy and security. Why wouldn't, say, iris scans be
preferable?

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org