W. U. Simons
August 23rd 07, 01:59 AM
from Fingerscan has replaced traditional
* password systems at the White House and at the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
*
* Fingerscan, an Identix company, provides biometric identification in
* the form of a three dimensional scan of a fingerprint, captured when a
* finger is held against a Fingerscan device, a self-contained terminal
* that stores finger records, keeps a log of transactions and interacts
* with other devices.
*
* The terminal works by mapping, recording and storing data contained in
* a 3-D scan of various dimensions of the entire finger - including skin
* patterns and reflections and blood flow - for subsequent comparison.
Oh my gawd, a Universal Biometric Card!
What losers are getting one?
* Sandia and Coms21, currently engaged in an agreement to support the
* People's Republic of China's driver license and national ID card
* program, have partnered to create a fraud-proof solution for on-the-spot
* positive identification of card bearers.
*
* This combination features Sandia's personalization printing and encoding
* technologies that add photos and encode chips onto smart ID cards.
*
* Coms21's hand-held smart card readers then provide portable verification
* of cardholders' personalized information by bringing smart-card stored
* photos, text and graphics up on a screen.
# With the Universal Biometric Card, motorists in Chinese provinces will be
# required to carry the smart cards like a personal driver's license. When
# being stopped for a traffic violation, the driver would have to forward
# the smart card to the traffic cop who would use a card reader/writer to
# access information stor
* password systems at the White House and at the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
*
* Fingerscan, an Identix company, provides biometric identification in
* the form of a three dimensional scan of a fingerprint, captured when a
* finger is held against a Fingerscan device, a self-contained terminal
* that stores finger records, keeps a log of transactions and interacts
* with other devices.
*
* The terminal works by mapping, recording and storing data contained in
* a 3-D scan of various dimensions of the entire finger - including skin
* patterns and reflections and blood flow - for subsequent comparison.
Oh my gawd, a Universal Biometric Card!
What losers are getting one?
* Sandia and Coms21, currently engaged in an agreement to support the
* People's Republic of China's driver license and national ID card
* program, have partnered to create a fraud-proof solution for on-the-spot
* positive identification of card bearers.
*
* This combination features Sandia's personalization printing and encoding
* technologies that add photos and encode chips onto smart ID cards.
*
* Coms21's hand-held smart card readers then provide portable verification
* of cardholders' personalized information by bringing smart-card stored
* photos, text and graphics up on a screen.
# With the Universal Biometric Card, motorists in Chinese provinces will be
# required to carry the smart cards like a personal driver's license. When
# being stopped for a traffic violation, the driver would have to forward
# the smart card to the traffic cop who would use a card reader/writer to
# access information stor