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To: Dale Baker who wrote (8556)	4/30/2002 1:20:43 PM
From: David	Respond to of 10293

Dale, if you knew anything about these two companies, you wouldn't be surprised by the layoffs. They are direct competitors in a major area of their business -- the AFIS fingerprint identification area -- and the logic for the merger had as much to do with eliminating this overlap as it did in producing a mult-biometric authentication company. This isn't bad news for longs, it is some expected good news. But thanks for thinking of us.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (8556)	5/16/2002 2:06:39 PM
From: Bill Wexler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

Hoooweeee! I think CTXS needs to be snapped up here at $12 - $13

To: Dale Baker who wrote (8556)	5/16/2002 3:52:15 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

Here's some interesting info for those people who still think IDNX is the future of security: counterpane.com Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at biometric fingerprint devices. These are security systems that attempt to identify people based on their fingerprint. For years the companies selling these devices have claimed that they are very secure, and that it is almost impossible to fool them into accepting a fake finger as genuine. Matsumoto, along with his students at the Yokohama National University, showed that they can be reliably fooled with a little ingenuity and $10 worth of household supplies... mg