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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: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