RE: Little Brother Larry sorta ON topic

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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Orr, Steve wrote:

>First of all, when applying for an ID card the prospective holder of the
>card has to be physically present in order to get their mug shot and
prints-
>a significant deterent to fraud. Next, during the identification phase, the
>ID card is scanned just like a credit card and, using an encrypted unique
PK
>index value, the physical attributes of the supposed card holder are
>retrieved. That shouldn't be a database performance issue even with a U.S.
>population of 300,000,000. Then the mugshot of the ID is displayed on a
>screen for human and machine visual verification and the card holder places
>his palm on a device for matching with the retrieved ID. If the chances for
>failure on either identification method is 0.0001 to 1 then isn't the
chance
>for their combined failure 0.0001 squared or a million to one?
>

OK but what happens if i grow a beard? or shave one off? or change my hair color? or add an earring? or cut my palm or finger and get a scar?

or do i give up the right to do any of that once my mug hot and print are in the database?

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