Bruce Schneier: Tigers use scent, birds use calls – biometrics are just animal instinct (Guardian Unlimited)
Biometrics may seem new, but they're the oldest form of identification. Tigers recognise each other's scent; penguins recognise calls. Humans recognise each other by sight from across the room, voices on the phone, signatures on contracts and photographs on drivers' licences. Fingerprints have been used to identify people at crime scenes for more than 100 years. What is new about biometrics ... Around the Campus (DCMilitary.com)
The Transportation Division of the Operations Management Department will begin running a 15-passenger van directly from the E-Lot to Building 10 for staff members. The van will run continuously from 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The location for pick-up is the bus shelter near Building 141. UF students, faculty can update licenses on campus (The Gainesville Sun)
University of Florida students and employees as well as anyone else near the Gainesville campus can get their driver's license updated and register their emergency contact information on campus until Friday afternoon. Examine the World Smart Cards Market (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Electronics industry is available in its catalogue. Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 takes place January 5 - 9, 2009 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Homeland Security rule takes effect Jan. 18 (Pacific Daily News)
Permanent residents, or green card holders, could be required to provide fingerprint scans or other biometric data as identification upon arrival to a U.S. port of entry, according to a U.S. Federal Register notice issued Dec. 19. Travel documents changing June 1 (Greencastle Banner-Graphic)
Beginning June 1, U.S. citizens returning from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda or the Caribbean will need more than a birth certificate and drivers license to re-enter the country. Several options are... Finger scanning to be lunch card of the future (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Shelly Phillips, cafeteria manager at Uthoff Valley Elementary in Fenton, assists Rodrick Knights in scanning his finger, while Isabel Lee (left) and Emily Newman look on. Rockwood students will soon pay for their lunches biometrically, by scanning their fingerprints into a computer. Open lunch era is over (The Carthage Press)
After decades of having open lunch for its students, Carthage High School is closing that era and opening a new one. Futronic Launches FS25 USB2.0 Fingerprint Mifare Card Reader/Writer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Futronic Technology Company Limited, a global provider of fingerprint recognition software and hardware products, announces the commercial release of FS25, a USB Fingerprint Mifare Card Reader and Writer.
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