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To: Enam Luf who wrote (28)	9/11/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: David	Read Replies (3) of 206

"some worry that 'finger theft' could become prevalent... It's sick... i know.. but the world can be a pretty sick place... "In any case,... biometrics doesn't replace encryption.... anything that is sent over wires, encluding a fingerprint or voice scan would still need to be scrambled to prevent someone from "sniffing" it off the network and using it to fake someone's id..." * * * I think you are underestimating the fingerscanning products out there. The better ones cannot be spoofed with a dead or plastic finger, since they are sensitive to heat and moisture. As to someone picking off a fingerprint from a network, that shouldn't work either, since security algorithms reject perfectly identical subsequent submissions. Finally, the fingerprint biometrics are far better than 80-90%. Parameters can be set by the administrator for various applications, depending on security needs, to balance the incidences of authorized user rejections versus allowing unauthorized users in.

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