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Old Sep 9, 2006 | 12:31 pm
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Originally Posted by boondoggie
Think of all the companies that are using biometric sensing for security applications. Lee Majors even did an IBM commercial with a six million dollar man reference. This technology is now old stuff.
Biometrics are not foolproof. There is ample evidence to show that it doesn't take much to defeat these systems. Can it help? Possibly, but it isn't the silver bullet that most people make it out to be.
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