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Your Skin Is Your Password

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-a-bar-code dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Technology Review is running a story outlining a process which uses light to uniquely identify a person through their skin. The light reflects through a person's skin and is uniquely reflected back to a receiver. The researchers believe that this has some major applications including improving hand gun saftey locks and preventing cellular phone theft."

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  1. Uh oh.. by Xunker · · Score: 2, Funny
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    Hilary Rosen's speech was about her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money.
  2. haha by kasper37 · · Score: 2, Funny

    unfortunately 90% of the hackers' logins could be bypassed using a single sheet of plain white paper.

  3. Skin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Make sure not to get a tan this weekend, your [insert appliance here] might think you're a thief.

  4. Re:Phone theft by quantaman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its cold here.

    The http://www.zort.ca says it all :)

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    I stole this Sig