I'd recognise that ear, anywhere
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36106.html> The Register 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. Boffins at the University of Leicester, working with K9 Forensic Services, have developed a computerised ear image and ear print identification system. Their technology is capable of recognising partial earprints and images Professor Guy Rutty, head of the forensic pathology unit at the university, said the technology "may ultimately allow the development of a system similar to that of the national finger print system which is used for the identification of individuals by police forces across the world". The human ear is a particularly difficult biometric to track, because it is flexible and deforms under pressure. Several organisations are researching the field, and in 2003 the EU launched a three-year investigation into the feasibility of using ear prints for criminal identification. reg; -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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.
At 9:57 AM -0500 3/11/04, sunder wrote:
This is old news.
Hmmm... Actual progress on old news is new news, right? :-) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Hmmm... Actual progress on old news is new news, right?
Not when it pretends to be a new and wonderful idea, and ignores its past. Sort of like Apple announcing the world's first 64 bit desktop computer when many of us have had DEC Alpha's and UltraSPARC machines on our desks since the early/mid 90's -- for example. (And then it turns out, they don't even have a 64 bit OS for it yet!)
At 10:02 AM -0500 3/12/04, sunder wrote:
Not when it pretends to be a new and wonderful idea, and ignores its past.
Pedant. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Perhaps,its because they need the funds. Have to pull wool over their eyes,to get the money. --- sunder <sunder@sunder.net> wrote:
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Hmmm... Actual progress on old news is new news, right?
Not when it pretends to be a new and wonderful idea, and ignores its past.
Sort of like Apple announcing the world's first 64 bit desktop computer when many of us have had DEC Alpha's and UltraSPARC machines on our desks since the early/mid 90's -- for example. (And then it turns out, they don't even have a 64 bit OS for it yet!)
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