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U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports
lemist writes "Cross Match has rolled out digital fingerprinting at major airports in the United States according to MSNBC. It's designed to increase border security. They appear to be using Cross Match's Verifier 300 LC. Note that the actual capture of the fingerprint requires no interaction with the device. It determines when the image quality is excellent and grabs it."
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Now, all we need to do is to have terrorists send us in a copy of their finger prints so we can keep em on file.
Nice move, eh?
"Money or your live!" they say.
"All my money is locked in the bank with my PIN and fingerprint!"
"TELL ME YOUR PIN OR I'LL SHOOT YOUR DAUGHTER!"
"1234!"
"Good. NOW YOUR FINGER PLEASE!"
*chopchopchop* -
There ya go...
Please excuse our xenophobic and jingoistic tendancies. Ya'll have a nice day now!
-psy
The Department of Homeland Security put out a PDF leaflet about the program, which contained their normal, almost incomprehensible pictograms like those on ready.gov
I thought they needed some better, and funnier, subtitles.
Digital fingerprints? That's redundant. Fingers are also called digits.
How ya like dat?
If you are travelling from a country that participates in a visa waiver program (e.g. Australia), you don't need to get your finger print checked. This is on the assumption that such countries will have biometric information recorded in the passport by October of this year. I'm guessing this means any Australian travelling to the US for less that 90 days that doesn't want to have to apply for a visa will need to replace their current passport (probably at considerable expense).
Between now and October, however, a traveller with a passport from a visa waiver qualifying country can get in without ever being finger-printed. The message from the US government could not be clearer: if you are going to commit acts of terrorism, don't tell us you are going to stay longer that 90 days when you first enter the country, and please make sure you do this before the next Federal election.
Where, oh where have all our (and foreigners) rights gone?
When you get offered five fingers wrapped in a latex glove in return!
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But how else are you going to come up with the fingerprint database and be ready for when the government determines which patterns of whorls on fingers mean you are a terrorist? They will be able to pre-emptively execute or at least imprison terrorists thanks to this simple practice, except you, you ungrateful wretch, you're trying to get in the way. :P
How will George Bush know which sorts of whorls mean you're a terrorist?
I'm sure God will be good enough to tell him.
Aren't all fingerprints digital?
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One problem is that even if you can correctly identify every single person entering the country, you can't stop any terrorists until they have a known terror record.
Still, this should effectively put a stop to anyone attempting their second suicide bombing! And that's no worse than most of these anti terror programs.
By nightfall your country will be teeming with orcs!
One of these days I'm moving to Theory - everything works there
We are high risk company from Middle East and Central Asia. We are looking for supplier of either passports from these 28 countries or the technoology to forge them. We pay good money.
Ahmed ibn al-Kaif el-Kazar, CTO
Osama and Co.
Look at this pic from crossmatch, the makers of the fingerprint system.
The hand in the pic has hair and veins sticking out. It's a guys hand with a woman's fingernail.
These are the people we are trusting to "secure" our airports? It sounds like an oxymoron on par with "Microsoft Security"!