The finger-print has been a means of identifying someone since Victorian times, and Hollywood has popularised the concept of a fingerprint reading door lock far more than anyone who would actually have to install and maintain such a device.

"What sounds like science fiction is actually becoming a cost-effective way to ensure that someone is who they say they are, for everything from bank transactions to logging into a computer or opening a door."

This means of using a physical characteristic as a means of identifying someone for security purposes is what biometrics is all about. The problem is the distrust sown by the movies where fingerprint machines can be fooled with a few dabs of latex which have been imprinted with the fingerprints of someone else.

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