Thursday, June 17, 2010

Limits to the utility of fingerprinting

According to Kyodo News, a Chinese woman had her fingerprints surgically altered in order to bypass biometric airport security.

Lin Xiuai, 33, a resident of Yokohama, has told investigators she underwent surgery to change her fingerprints at a clinic in China's Fujian Province for about ¥30,000, the sources said.

That's only on the order of U$330. That makes it very cost-effective to defeat biometric fingerprint infrastructure.

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