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Biometrics Are Making Espionage Harder
schwit1 sends this story from Foreign Policy: In the age of iris scans and facial recognition software, biometrics experts like to point out: The eyes don't lie. And that has made tradecraft all the more difficult for U.S. spies. After billions of dollars of investment — largely by the U.S. government — the routine collection and analysis of fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images are helping to ferret out terrorists and immigration fraudsters all over the world. But it has also made it harder for undercover agents to remain anonymous.
Gone are the days of entering a country with a false passport and wearing a wig and a mustache to hide your true identity. Once an iris scan is on record, it becomes nearly impossible to evade detection. 'In the 21st century, you can't do any of that because of biometrics,' said retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Gone are the days of entering a country with a false passport and wearing a wig and a mustache to hide your true identity. Once an iris scan is on record, it becomes nearly impossible to evade detection. 'In the 21st century, you can't do any of that because of biometrics,' said retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
You don't say...
Nonsense! James O'Keefe has crossed the border masquarading as Osama bin Laden. And thousands of serious "undocumented Americans" do that without even any attempts to disguise themselves — and do not encounter much molestation neither during nor after the act.
TFA tells us, the technology to fight it is there. Now we just need the will to use it — instead we currently have a will not to.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Am I somehow supposed to feel bad that due to the extensive tracking by Big Brother of everything that we do that all of a sudden Big Brother is having a hard time of it?
Boo fucking hoo.
You assholes created this surveillance society. You don't get to bitch when the same fucking issues we all face suddenly bit you in your own ass.
That these clowns are now stepping in the pile of shit they helped to create is too fucking bad.
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