Why Veins Could Be A New Form Of ID

Why Veins Could Be A New Form Of ID

technology.timesonline.co.uk

Forget fingerprinting. Companies in Europe have begun to roll out an advanced biometric system from Japan that identifies people from the unique patterns of veins inside their fingers.

Finger vein authentication, introduced widely by Japanese banks in the last two years, is claimed to be the fastest and most secure biometric method. Developed by Hitachi, it verifies a person's identity based on the lattice work of minute blood vessels under the skin.

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Very interesting stuff indeed.

This even protects against those dreaded criminals who would seek to bypass fingerprint measures by hacking off a finger.

The gruesome possibility that criminals may hack off a finger has already been discounted by Hitachi's scientists. Asked if authentication could be "forged" with a severed finger, the company says: "As blood would flow out of a disconnected finger, authentication would no longer be possible."

Pretty cool stuff.

technology.timesonline.co.uk
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A better form of ID, would be a system that is capable of sensing such minute details in a 3-dimensional magnetic field produced by the human body, recorded by computer, and reassembled as a holographic representation of the human body which is can then be used to identify the user to such a degree that other than completely changing the DNA of a user, there would be no way for this system to be fooled? Well, guess what, it already exists. And its in orbit right above your heads right now.




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