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Story: Customers 'want biometrics'

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Posted by: Roger Pratt (Tuesday 10 May 2005, 11:40 AM)

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No, I don't! I don't want someone cutting off my hand so that they can access my bank account, like they did when they stole that fellow's Mercedes Benz in Malaysia: they didn't want to drag him around to restart the car each time they stopped, so they just took his index finger along instead. What if they stole your eyes for a retnal scan? I don't want so much security, thank you.

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