RE: This is scary

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

Why is it scary? Police have been using fingerprint evidence for about
100 years.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of scott
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:56 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] This is scary

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- From the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR200711
3002302_pf.html

    snip

Duong's most recent innovation, the Joint Expeditionary Forensics
Facilities (JEFF) project or "lab in a box," analyzes biometrics. It
will be delivered to Iraq at the beginning of 2008, the Navy said, to
help distinguish insurgents from civilians.

"The best missile is worthless if you don't know who to shoot," Duong
said.

Betro said the military has been scanning the irises and taking the
fingerprints of Iraqis, feeding a biometrics data base in West Virginia
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/West+Virginia?tid=infor
mline>.
To date, a few ad hoc labs have processed about 85,000 pieces of
evidence taken from weapons caches or roadside devices. Duong's mobile
forensic labs, with an initial budget of $34 million, will be deployed
all over Iraq.

      snip

Hmmm.When is this going to be in the hands of every cop on the street?

Scott

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