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Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse
An anonymous reader writes "A small U.S. university has come up with a novel solution to reduce the possibility of using a dead person's hand to get past a fingerprint scanner through the use of hemoglobin detection. The device quickly checks the fingerprint and hemoglobin 'non-intrusively' to verify the identity and whether the individual is alive. This field of research is called Biocryptology and seeks to ensure that biometric security devices can't be easily bypassed."
How will lawyers use it?
...people... like Dick Cheney... are alive...
That seems debatable.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
If someone's using a severed hand to pay for gas, I think your gas station might have bigger problems.