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To: brad greene who wrote (12690)	3/11/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: David	of 26039

Another biometrics article with a couple of new facts: asiansources.com "Israel is . . . evaluating fingerprint programs and hand geometry identification, with a view to implementing a new control system for 40,000 migrant workers in the West Bank and Gaza region. The chosen system will require the implementation of around 1,500 biometric readers." [This one looks like a bit like the O'Hare application.] and "Government programs are also moving rapidly toward biometric security systems. Shocked by the vulnerability of its computer systems — a Defense Information Systems Agency report estimated that 250,000 attacks were made on the US Department of Defense computer systems in 1995, with 65 percent thought to have been successful and the number of attacks doubling each year — the US Government published guidelines through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommending that government departments move to combination biometric and smart-card security systems." [emphasis supplied] (credit: Rob S. on the GDER thread)

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