Re: UK Sunday Times: "Steal the face right off your head"

[Ray Dillinger]

On 13 Dec 2000, Jaap-Henk Hoepman wrote:

>According to these experts, any method for detecting gloves, dead fingers
>etc. cannot be made very reliable because the variation of the physical
>properties whose measurement these systems rely on is very large. Increasing
>the reliability would also increase the false rejection ratio, making the
>systems unusable.

Last time I had to use such a system, It considered my 
fingertip "dead or artificial" and refused to open.  

Side effect of having very thick dry skin that's not very 
conductive electrically.

                        Bear