[Gllug] Biometrics?

[John G Walker]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:02:34 +0000 John Edwards
<john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> wrote:

> > Actually you can get a collision with a very small sample identical
> > twins, which are quite common.  
> 
> But at least that's a known collision, and can be marked as such.

But the problem is that variations in DNA is not randomly spread around
the population. It goes by families. This is why the reporting of "one
in so many thousand" chance of a match is misleading. It would only be
that chance if DNA varied randomly,


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 John
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