On 2005-04-28T15:37:19-0700, cypherpunk wrote: > > Matthew's snapshots: one > > (http://www.boingboing.net/images/Liberty-Locker-Thumbs-2.jpg), two > > (http://www.boingboing.net/images/Liberty-Locker-Thumbs1.jpg). > > If this were really as much of a conspiracy as people are making it > out to be, wouldn't it make sense to ask for THUMB prints? that's what > the subject line says, and that's what the titles of the two jpeg > files are. But if you look at the pictures, they plainly ask for the > right index finger.
I doubt the machine cares which finger visitors use. Since most people in this country are functionally illiterate, the average visitor may well present a thumb rather than an index finger.