Friday, September 14, 2007

Can Biometric Systems Be Tricked?

Biometrics 2007, the annual UK conference on biometrics will take place in London over the period 17-19 October. With governments now poised to embrace this technology in the face of terrorism fears and a dramatic growth in ID fraud, it now looks as if the multi-million pound ten-year investments made by many biometrics manufacturers in the late 1990s are about to pay dividends. But is the technology as good as it claims to be and can the latest biometrics systems be fooled, as alleged in this 2005 newspaper report?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/78a735f4-e6a8-11d9-b6bc-00000e2511c8.html