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U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports

Posted by timothy on from the fingers-bitte dept.

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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  1. Clever device by wkitchen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It would be nice if a good fingerprint reader could be made cheap enough to use it for things like unlocking doors and starting cars. Wouldn't need to carry so many keys around. Should be simpler for these kinds of applications since it would only have to match against a very small local database of prints.

  2. Re:28 countries exempt by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Brazil? I hear the monkey problem is even worse than before."

    If you've ever been to Brazil, that's about as funny as a Windows/Mac user making jokes about Linux's lack of USB support.

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  3. Re:28 countries exempt by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "You mean it gets funnier with age? "

    Heh.

    When my plane to Australia was landing, somebody (embarrasingly for me, it was an American) pointed towards the runway and said "Look! I think can see a bunch of kangaroos hoppin around!"

    I participated in the mumbling over by my end of the plane about the 'ignorant American'.

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    "Derp de derp."
  4. Re:28 countries exempt by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They don't hop around all over the place. You pretty much have to go to a zoo to see one. Same for Dingos and Koalas.

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    "Derp de derp."