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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 11:25 pm
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coxta
 
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Along the same line.....

German Hackers Publish Interior Minister's Fingerprints to Protest Against Biometric IDs

A group of hackers has captured the fingerprints of the German Interior Minister as a protest against plans to use biometric data in e-passports. The latest edition of their magazine, Die Datenschleuder, contains a plastic foil that reproduces the whorls and swirls of Wolfgang Schauble's digit, meaning there are 4,000 copies of the politician's prints just waiting to be attached to someone's finger...


http://gizmodo.com/373829/german-hac...-biometric-ids
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