rlbell |
11-01-2006 11:34 PM |
My problem with RFID chips is that they offer very little that you could not get from a fingerprint reader. Properly designed, the fingerprint reader could be incorporated into the doorlatch, so it is not obvious that it was my fingerprint that unlocked it. If I really cannot be bothered to remember passwords, I would rather use biometrics than RFID. Face recognition in the near infrared is very hard to spoof, and it can still recognize you if you restyle/remove/regrow hair. Because the temperature variations of the human face depend on the vaguaries of the environment of the placenta, even the faces of two genetically identical clones will differ. More importantly, it will not recognize a warmed over corpse. A single finger pad is too small, but the hand print should be large enough to show heat unique heat variations. At least, this is the impression I got from an episode of the australian popular science TV program, Beyond 2000.
[On topic digression]
Cows often have identical twins, but (in the case of holsteins) that just means that the two calves have the same amount of skin area that has the same coloration (black or white), so you will be hard pressed to spot the twins in a group of non-identical cattle.
In the US, the most unususal proponents of the implantable chips are christian splinter groups that see them as The Mark of The Beast. While it seems counterintuitive for these christians to endorse anything so obviously of The Beast, rapid adoption of the implantable chip, in their eyes, means that the endtimes predicted in the bible are upon us and the second coming of The Lord is at hand.
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