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technology from Fingerscan has replaced traditional
*   password systems at the White House and at the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
*   
*      Fingerscan, an Identix company, provides biometric identification in
*   the form of a three dimensional scan of a fingerprint, captured when a
*   finger is held against a Fingerscan device, a self-contained terminal
*   that stores finger records, keeps a log of transactions and interacts
*   with other devices.
*
*   The terminal works by mapping, recording and storing data contained in
*   a 3-D scan of various dimensions of the entire finger - including skin
*   patterns and reflections and blood flow - for subsequent comparison.

Oh my gawd, a Universal Biometric Card!

What losers are getting one?

*       Sandia and Coms21, currently engaged in an agreement to support the
*   People's Republic of China's driver license and national ID card
*   program, have partnered to create a fraud-proof solution for on-the-spot
*   positive identification of card bearers.
*
*   This combination features Sandia's personalization printing and encoding
*   technologies that add photos and encode chips onto smart ID cards.
*
*   Coms21's hand-held smart card readers then provide portable verification
*   of cardholders' personalized information by bringing smart-card stored
*   photos, text and graphics up on a screen.

#   With the Universal Biometric Card, motorists in Chinese provinces will be
#   required to carry the smart cards like a personal driver's license. When
#   being stopped for a traffic violation, the driver would have to forward
#   the smart card to the traffic cop who would use a card reader/writer to
#   access information stored in the card, issue an electronic ticket right on
#   the spot with the fines and other information embedded into the smart card
#   chip itself. When the driver g