You know, I thought they'd discovered recently that fingerprints were not as distinctive and individual as they'd once thought. If that's true, then this is probably not the best idea in the world. For one thing, the databases would be monstrous large. For another, once the sensor had been used by a couple, three hundred people on a very busy day, wouldn't it get difficult for it to read anything at all?
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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