Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse 156
An anonymous reader writes "A small U.S. university has come up with a novel solution to reduce the possibility of using a dead person's hand to get past a fingerprint scanner through the use of hemoglobin detection. The device quickly checks the fingerprint and hemoglobin 'non-intrusively' to verify the identity and whether the individual is alive. This field of research is called Biocryptology and seeks to ensure that biometric security devices can't be easily bypassed."
IANAL (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not checking pulse (Score:5, Funny)
...people... like Dick Cheney... are alive...
That seems debatable.
Re:Gun to the Head (Score:3, Funny)
If someone's using a severed hand to pay for gas, I think your gas station might have bigger problems.