[Gllug] Biometrics?

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:00:27PM +0000, James Hawtin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:03:28AM +0000, John Edwards wrote:
<sbip>
>> Which is why DNA fingerprinting is not 100% accurate and you get
>> collisions in any large sample. Make that sample 60 million and
>> collisions are inevitable.
> 
> 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.


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