[IP] more on Canada-U.S.-Mexico borders to become biometric passport zones

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:07:33 -0400
To: <dave@farber.net>
Cc: Ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Canada-U.S.-Mexico borders to become biometric
passport zones

[For IP]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:10 -0400, David Farber wrote:
> Biometrics do no good to authenticate a document.  They
> serve only one purpose: to prove that a present human is described by
> a document.

Actually, they don't even do that. They prove that a present human is
described by a present biometric. The rest of the document can still be
a forgery.


Jonathan Shapiro
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University


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