Biometrics is touted as the solution to all identity problems we have. It is like Manna from heaven that would solve all the problems associated with user IDs and passwords and tokens and make everyone so unique because of the fact that they have finger prints, retinas, face geometry, hand geometry, wrinkles on the face and whichever set of controls required to ensure that the person identifying himself is him/her. However, this identity is under pressure from a set of technologies, that helps in recording it in such minute details that with advances in technology these could be replicated without much ado over time. Lets look at Cameras with super sensitive irises. These Cameras with high resolution sensors to the tune of 50 Mega Pixels announced recently by Canon and other Japanese Camera Leaders, makes you wonder, if your iris is protected at all. Can somebody take a shot of your iris or a shot of your fingers, make a copy of it and run away with your identity. It is a possibility...
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