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Old 8th May 2007, 20:18
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llondel
 
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Lost in Saigon:
First a scanner reads your security card, then most security points use the fingerprint scan to confirm who you are.
I hope it's a better system than this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04...int_merc_chop/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4396831.stm

A Malaysian businessman has lost a finger to car thieves impatient to get around his Mercedes' fingerprint security system. Accountant K Kumaran, the BBC reports, had at first been forced to start the S-class Merc, but when the carjackers wanted to start it again without having him along, they chopped off the end of his index finger with a machete.
Mythbusters also defeated a number of fingerprint security locks fairly easily.
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