Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken

[Mark Carey-Smith <m.careysmith () student qut edu au>]

--- Original message ----
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:37:23 -0400
> From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken
> Before this gets discussed, I think a review of the available options
> are in order

Quite apart from self-mutilation, my understanding was that soley relying on the accuracy of fingerprint recognition 
based biometric systems was not a good idea due to problems with accuracy. I haven't seen any recent advances or 
rebuttals of the infamous 'gummy bear' tests conducted by Tsutomu Matsumoto et al in their paper Impact of Artificial 
"Gummy" Fingers on Fingerprint Systems ( http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm ).

In this kind of identification scenario, (as opposed to authentication where the system could be easily improved by 
adding additional authentication factors e.g: PIN) in a public place with an untrained and possibly uncooperative user 
base false positives could be a major problem.

Mark Carey-Smith
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology

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