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Re: One Step...

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From: root
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1989 13:55
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In article <69@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox) writes:
>In article <4498@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>>Fun note but why do a password challenge when a retinal scan would
>>have been more secure? (please, no disgusting remarks about how to fool
>>a retinal scanner.)
>
>How about using some kind of DNA finger printing? - take a small sample
>of blood (ouch!) and check on this. This would be almost impossible to fool.

Be serious. Besides the invasiveness of the procedure, it's just too slow and
labor intensive using present technology.

Donn S. Fishbein, MD
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Subject: Re: One Step...
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Date: 16 Jan 89 13:55:41 GMT
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