Changing your biometrics

[Ned Fleming <ned () kaw us>]

> From James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" in the WSJ:

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InsideTech, a blog on Monster.com, has a fascinating story of an
effort to evade immigration laws:

Lin Rong, a Chinese national, loved Japan. After all, there were no
beatdowns of employees that lost iPhones, not as many internet
addiction camps, and no great firewall to censor her internet
behavior. However, she unfortunately overstayed her visa and was
deported.

Determined to return, Ms. Rong underwent a rare, but increasingly
popular advanced medical procedure to remove her fingerprints on one
hand and graft on those of the other hand. As fingerprints are unique
and typically scanned from one hand, the technique is becoming popular
in China as a method of eluding biometric scanning devices.

Eventually, though, she was identified despite the surgery that made
both hands appear identical to the fingerprint reader. It seems two
rights do make a Rong.

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