This is old news. No, really, I'm not channeling Mr. May and telling you to hit the archives... A few years ago, this was a topic here, and the outcome was that cypherpunks should wear their hair long so as to cover their ears. Kinda goes with the long hair - 10 gallon hat kinda look. :) I believe the INS requires pictures at 45 degrees for green cards, but not passports(???), so that they can see one ear (or enough of it to use as ID) so it's quite likely that somewhere some black budget project likely already made leaps into this technology, and that this is possibly just another example of a university doing stuff that the spooks have already done 10 years ago - or whenever... R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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I'd recognise that ear, anywhere By Lucy Sherriff Posted: 09/03/2004 at 10:11 GMT
Never mind retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition: we'll have our ears on a national database, soon.