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Re: [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:32:36 GMT
You think that's bad? "Finger Scanning At Disney Parks Causes Concern" http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html Fsck off, Mickey. :-) - ferg -- "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote: From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com> Date sent: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:12:22 -0400
Does anyone know what happens to the fingerprint images of the folks
who are not
considered "terrorists"? Are the images still retained in a database for possible future matching?
And, since terrorists sometimes operate in airports, then all fingerprints of people who go through airports will be retained, and compared against ... (I think I need to go lie down, now.) Honestly, my first thought on reading this was that it was some kind of hoax ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org The best of seers is he who guesses well. - Euripedes Dictionary of Information Security www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
Current thread:
- [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks Richard M. Smith (Sep 08)
- Re: [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 09)
- Re: [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks Dude VanWinkle (Sep 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks Fergie (Sep 09)
- Re: [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks Dave Dittrich (Sep 09)
- Re: [privacy] US expands visitor fingerprinting to deter attacks Fergie (Sep 09)