> Nice! Get them to cut _all_ your fingers off instead of just one. > Just say no to amputationware.
Use the kind of fingerprint reader that can also sense the blood flow in the finger, kinda like the heart rate sensors on some exercise machines. Dead fingers then will be of no use. ...of course, one can still take a fingerprint photograph, etch it to metal, pour thin layer of silicone over it, make a relief layer to put over one's own finger, and fool the sensor. For this you don't even need a cut-off finger, though - the access to the digitized thumbprints in ie. a police database (or the database of those stores that allow you to pay with a fingerprint, if you're there) is enough.
