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To: steve who wrote (6234)	1/17/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

steve, dropped an e mail to Boston Globe. Maybe they will find out & tell me. I figure it never hurts to ask :o) NW

To: steve who wrote (6234)	1/17/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: Buck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Two minutes seems to be a standard when IDX is being described, very hopeful steve!

To: steve who wrote (6234)	1/17/1998 1:28:00 AM
From: steve	Respond to of 26039

**SEMI--OFF TOPIC** Some of these may be dated a bit. None of the links are directly related to IDX. Found a new news source. (new to me) Could you tell? totalnews.com All of these came from a "fingerprint" search. ================================================================== Officials Won't Back $1 Fee on Drivers for Fingerprinting System latimes.com =================================================================== Fingerprinting Thanks to encryption, digital documents can be trusted just as much as paper ones. Digital signatures allow an author to attach an unforgeable John Hancock. And digital fingerprints tell whether a document has been altered. But despite their names, digital signatures and fingerprints are usually mind-numbingly long lists of hexadecimal digits. To rectify the problem, Ian Goldberg, a UC Berkeley graduate student, cameup with a clever program that turns these digital identifiers into unique fractal images. (This one says "Get Wired.") "It's easier for people to spot that two pictures are different than to compare a sequence of hex digits," he says. Think of it as one more triumph of digital technology. Now not only are signatures almost impossible to forge - they're also in 24-bit color. -Calum T. Dalek hotwired.com =============================================================== The biometric cause may be getting some help from the IRS (my speculation) hotwired.com =============================================================== Biometrics vrs smartcard, author doesn't seem to know that biometrics and smatcards are compatible. Chart at the bottom of page. hotwired.com ============================================================== facial thermograms??? hotwired.com ============================================================== Was this done with an IDX machine? boston.com ============================================================== Fingerprint checks slow hirings in California schools $2,000,000 in overtime. How many machines would that be??? nando.net =============================================================== steve

To: steve who wrote (6234)	1/17/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: Richard Newton	Respond to of 26039

<<Company not mentioned. New fingerprint transmission system to help northern New England police>> Could be just an update to below article from last year... Maine, NH and VT were Printrak companies then. Title: New England States Join Forces In Fingerprint ID System Summary: Law enforcement agencies in three New England states are joining forces to acquire and jointly operate an automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS). The system, which will be supplied and managed by Printrak International Inc. [NASDAQ:AFIS] will be used by Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Source: Newsbytes Date: 06-Aug-1997