Here's the real problem with fingerprint identification... No one fingerprint [i]IS[/i] different from another single fingerprint out there. The differences lie in the "full-ten" set of fingerprints, their order, and their exact layout. Biometric scanners that use fingerprints as an ID source, are very easy to manipulate, as there may be any number of people in the world who share a pattern on one finger close enough to imitate the original.
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Here's the real problem with fingerprint identification... No one fingerprint [i]IS[/i] different from another single fingerprint out there. The differences lie in the "full-ten" set of fingerprints, their order, and their exact layout. Biometric scanners that use fingerprints as an ID source, are very easy to manipulate, as there may be any number of people in the world who share a pattern on one finger close enough to imitate the original.