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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. Re:I have this giant wart on my finger by liquidice5 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree

    what about the handgun thing
    what if you are being attacked and your gun wont recognize you because you are sweating profusely??

    What about dirty hands?

    I believe that biometric systems will not be completely accurate until they use DNA from blood
    (like in Gattaca) (but, then also like in Gattaca, they can be fooled)

    but then there is privacy issues and things like that.

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    Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking - H.L. Mencken
  2. Re:Phone theft by rtaylor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its cold here. Some of us wear gloves.

    This isn't going to work very well.

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    Rod Taylor