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Story: Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics

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Biometrics BS

The only Biometric ID that could possibly be absolute is a DNA scan of sufficient resolution that your genetic markers would not match anyone else except your clone's or your twin. Of course if I managed to nip a bit of your skin or a live hair follicle, I could incubate it and keep feeding it and I'd have enough tissue to fool the DNA scanner in a week or so.

Gummy bears can be used to pass lifted finger prints on most fingerprint scanners. Boy that's real secure!

It would seem that retina scanners could possibly be fooled with a projection. What happens to people with macular degeneration? Or a detached retina? They get immediately arrested for NOT matching their retina print taken X number of months or years before. In any case I'm not that willing to expose my eyes to a laser scanner that might malfunction. And before you say "get real!" Are you willing to trust your government (or mine) enough to expose your eyes to a potential damaging event when they award the contract to the lowest bidder for all that wonderful security equipment?

Some of the other scanner technologies IR, terahertz radio waves, MRI, CT scans and whatever the heck they use on Star Trek might work! Ha! The government busy-bodies seem to have watched Ar-nuld the Govenator in Total Recall a few too many times!

Thanks to the "shoe-bomber" we get to walk around in our socks on filthy airport terminal floors! Now they want us to stick our fingers on scanners that thousands of others have touched? Its bad enough when they isolate back surgery patients who have metal rods in their backs or pain-pump patients and pat them down like they're drug dealers. I've watched them (TSA) take apart a man's wheelchair looking for explosives!

I like visiting places but if it becomes such a freaking hassle to go to the UK , the EU or the US, its likely that ONLY the terrorists and illegals will go through the hassle of getting an ID card and traveling to those places that require all your personal details down to a urine sample, presumably. So obviously the guys with the ID cards are the ones to arrest!

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