full-disclosure - Re: Fingerprinting Paper with Laser

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:21:16 +0000
From: "james o' hare" <jamesohare69@...glemail.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Paper with Laser

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> wrote:
> I saw this release today, and just had to share it with anyone I could find.
>
> "Every paper, plastic, metal and ceramic surface is microscopically
> different and has its own 'fingerprint'. Professor Cowburn's LSA system
> uses a laser to read this naturally occurring 'fingerprint'. The
> accuracy of measurement is often greater than that of DNA with a
> reliability of at least one million trillion."
>
> I love it when old technologies and science are used in interesting new
> ways to impact the future.
>
> http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2254
>
> Expect to see this technology at an airport near you, in five years or so.
>
>        Gadi.

As long as it stops The Mossad going to Dubai and assassinating people
in hotel rooms, then I'm all for it.

Andrew

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