[Gllug] natwest fantasticness

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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004, David Irvine spake:
> I guess what we really need is iris,

Doesn't work for people with congenital cataracts, for starters, differs
across time in individuals...

>                                      or finger print recognition,
> something that is tied directly to you, that is very hard to copy in
> such a way which isnt blatently obvious.

*Definitely* not fingerprints, then. Forget the old `cut the finger off
and carry it with you'; Bruce Schneier has reported that it's a
ten-minute job to copy latent fingerprints off glasses and such and make
little unobtrusive slip-on pads to, er, `change' your own fingerprint.

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