Matthew's snapshots: one (http://www.boingboing.net/images/Liberty-Locker-Thumbs-2.jpg), two (http://www.boingboing.net/images/Liberty-Locker-Thumbs1.jpg).

If this were really as much of a conspiracy as people are making it out to be, wouldn't it make sense to ask for THUMB prints? that's what the subject line says, and that's what the titles of the two jpeg files are. But if you look at the pictures, they plainly ask for the right index finger. Thumbprints are widely used, drivers' licenses and banks often require them. If they wanted to be able to track average users, they would ask for thumb prints. But they're not. The really funny thing is how people see what they expect to see. Isn't it strange to have these documents titled Thumbsx.jpg, when they ask for index finger prints? People are so ruled by their preconceptions that they actually blind themselves to what is directly in front of them. I hope no one on this list is so foolish as to put ideology ahead of reality. CP