Will the new Police Lantern device be able to store people's fingerprints?
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shocking isn't it! how far do they think they can go? they won't be happy till they've got the technology to plug a wire into your head to sift through your memories to see if you've ever commited any kind of crime,
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In the forensics field, the fingerprint is used to determine a person's identity. When they have a sample, they or the computer selects atleast 10-14 different points of reference (dots, bifurcations, islands, terminations, etc) and they compare them to the sample in question. If youre speaking in terms of practical use, the human finger is capable of sensing a difference of about 1000th of an inch. (When running it along a "smooth" surface). And I would have to agree that it does give the finger some grip. Almost like a tire. When we grip something wet, the grooves move the liquid away so you can grip it better. Id have to agree.
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A fingerprint would increase the absorbance of the compound as detected by the instrument. This is because the grease from the print will reflect additional light, such that it does not reach the detector, thereby increasing absorbance.
810155
Doubt it. \n\nHow would the police know it was really stolen from you?  \n\nHow would they be able to able to differentiate who actually committed the theft from all of the other prints that could posibly be found on the container?
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That is why "W" wants bio/digital ID's for "guest" workers.  The US embassies, abroad, are already using digital fingerprinting/DNA coding for applications for visas.  The technology is there, the cost is NOT that high.  Of course, under Slick Willie, we would ALL be required to carry them.
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the fact that everything we are doing and will be doing in the near future will be documented automatically in your own personal profile on the central government database .Early next year they are going to be puting everyones medical info on the database ,do people realise this?.\nit starts with ID cards then its taking dna with out consent ,then face recognition cameras on every corner tracing your every move and constantly adding to your profile in the government central data base ,then its biometric finger scanning everytime you buy everything everywhere you go eventually turning us into a cashless society in which you use your finger to pay for everything all numbers ,being randomly stopped on the street and being asked to place your finger on there machine being tested in england and wales at the min ,all info going into your profile .\nat this point i hear people say ive got nothing to hide .then they want retina scans everytime you enter any building all still adding to your profile and face recognition cameras are not enougth they want to inject a sat nav chip in your arm the size of a tic tac how long before you have no choice in the matter of having it done because the system does not work if all are not part of it .sounds science fiction yet all science fact the micro chip was made by M.I.T and has been implanted on over 100 people this is an rfid chip yet sat technology exists,retina scan technology has been created ,biometric finger scanning yet not hooked up to the governments data base ,is being used in many school librarys and cafeterias to precondition this generation,its normal,the guinea pigs if you will ,and face recognition in early stages in the public is at the right standard to be implemented as part of the new world orders way of enslaving us. when it happens and you dont want to be part of this society you have to way up if you want to live in the wilderness or go along with being enslaved .this is gonna happen in years not decades.and all ive said isnt even half of it click on this link http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4839556520925774502&q=suspect+nation its a documentary that was on channel 4 last week ,this programme only really tells half the story yet if you dont know anything about this ,its eye opening stuff.\n\nif you want to go further and realise why there actually doing this click on this link\nhttp://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm \n\ni will definately opose this everywhere i go and debate it as much as i can but mainly try and inform people of what this means for humanity ,big brother is just a tiny piece of the big picture sadly. \nlaters.
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I'll join you bud. \nI've still not heard of a valid reason for having them. Stopping crime? Will it hell. And it'll spawn a whole new world of fraud with people making fake ones. Stop illegal immigration? They'll just buy one from Camden Market. \nAll I can think of is the safety in numbers...like the poll tax. www.no2id.net is a good place to start.
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there is technology now that scans the finger prints
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Don't think so. The process can't be reversely done.\n\nFingerprint is hashed from public key, one can't unhash it back, i.e. N -> C where N >> C is possible, but reverse is not.\n\nAlso, if one could go from fingerprint to a public key, then from public key he/she could derive the private key. Then the whole key-scheme security would be completely broken/useless.
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Fingerprinting is simple. All recruits to the Police Service are trained to do so.  However, the difficult bit is the 'lifting' at the scene of a crime, the examination and identification of the suspect.  You have to be an expert to give evidence about fingerprints at Court.  Nowadays there is an automatic retrieval and identification system by computer.  This provides a suspect or suspects for the crime.  The expert then examines those and makes a positive identification for court purposes.
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I don't know of anything commercially available, but I would be willing to bet that the military has something akin to this, perhaps for aircraft silhouette recognition by visual radar, as an I-F-F device.
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If people want to cover thier faces, they can, if they don't, they don't have to. It's their face!!! If it makes it difficult for the police to identify people and arrest them, then they can nicely ask the men to remove the facial covering for them. But what police officer is gonna know the face of a criminal from memory or picture? In the world where plastic surgery is possible how does the face even give a clue to who a person might be? The real clue is DNA, so go with the fingerprints!!\n      I always thougt that just because a few people from a group did something, it did not mean that the rest did it too. That's called being prejudiced. Being American [and i'm not saying that Americans are the only ones that believe this] I believe that you are innocent until proven guilty.
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1) A fingerprint sensor\n2) A stored sample of an acceptable finger print\n3) Analysis software to staticially match the finger print\n4) A signal of a match sent to the car ignition\n5) Packaging to fit this into the car\n6) Integration into the security components of the car
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Dangerous.\n\nIt'd be WAY too big of a target for electronic sabotage. Sooner, rather than later, people are going to find ways to bypass any and all security mechanisms that can be placed on the devices and their data stores.
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Fingerprinting has come a long way today, the systems are automated through computers linked straight to data bases for law enforcement. In most cases if the agency is automated it will check your info against what is on file, this is easily done and will tell the last time you were printed. If it is old, they may re-print you. For no automated agencies they will generally re-print each time.
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Magnifying glass to locate if you can't see them just by looking and tweezers to pick up and put in evidence bag
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Biometrics\n\nBiometric-based identification systems and displays are used through out the world for identification, security and entertainment. As new improvements and engineering discoveries emerge there is and equal increase in the demand for these products. Everything from fingerprint recognition, iris/retina scanning, virtual retinal display [VRD] to facial recognition these are all in high demand in both private and commercial markets. Exploring the world around us there are needs (security) that must be met and biometric equipment are there to meet them.\n\nBiometric is the process of automatically recognizing a person using distinguishing traits.3 Biometric technology has come a long way from simpler forms of systems security. But are biometrics-based systems more secure or do they simply require crackers to become more proficient at breaking into systems?2 As of right now we have passwords, pin numbers and signatures keeping our money, homes and jobs safe, and these forms of security are cheap and affective. But as industries grow, countries industrialize and people evolve there will always be a need for more security not necessarily better. Biometrics will most likely be better but expensive for the time being and this is the next step. Not to say that what we consider secure not secure but this is where it seems to be heading in the form of global security. For security purposes the private and government can both benefit from the outstanding discoveries in biometrics. Hand scanning is one of the grandfathers of biometric security. Still affective and in use it is cheap and able to be integrated anywhere. The geometric form of the hand is used to confirm a person's identity. The hand is not unique but specific characteristics of the hand such as the dimensions are. For a hand-scan to recognize a hand it must be placed on a reader's covered flat surface. This placement is positioned by five guides or pins that correctly situate the hand for the cameras.1 The technology uses a 32,000-pixel CCD digital camera to record the hands three- dimensional shape from silhouetted images projected within the scanner.1 Fingerprints are in the same generation as hand scanning and will confirm who the user is and accurately identifies a user in a 1:N (one to many) identification that is compared with many numerous records.1 This is a fast and reliable tool and are now being used as security features on home personal computers. These technologies are time tested and widely accepted by the public and the scans are none threatening and have a low False Reject Rate1 which allows fast and easy access to whatever and wherever this security feature is implemented.\n\nFacial recognition is an old idea but has been rejuvenated by the "eigenfaces" technique.4 The new research is done in neural networks, hidden Markov models and shape analysis. Eigenfaces technique is the identification of a human face in real time.\n\nSo, as a person is moving the cameras can track a face and identify it as it moves. This is a great advancement because this will allow law enforcement agencies to quickly sift through crowds of people and search for terrorists and anyone who is recognized as a potential threat. This is done by collecting data on the face in 2-D and then processing it through eigenfaces which are the principal components of the initial training set of face images. Recognition is performed by projecting a new image into the subspace spanned by the eigenfaces ("face space") and then classifying the face by comparing its position in face space with the positions of known individuals.4 This is the basic version trying to get a face to be processed, saved then recognized. Face recognition is incredibly difficult do to movement, distance and then trying to acquire enough accurate detail to recognize the face but with the forward motion of our technological discoveries the technology will become more abundant over time.\n\nI