Stealing secrets

chris@seary.com — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:49:31 GMT

Stealing secrets

Retinal scans require close contact of user and scanner, a perfect alignment of the eye with a scanner, and no movement of the eye. The examiner is required to keep the subject's eye within half an inch of the instrument. The subject must focus on a pinpoint of little green light (to properly align the eye) and avoid blinking. A low-intensity coherent light is then transmitted through the eye and the reflected image of the retinal capillary pattern is recorded by the computer. Facial recognition analyzes the characteristics of a person's face via images input through a digital video camera. It measures the overall facial structure, including distances between eyes, nose, mouth, and jaw edges. Retinal scanning is the most intrusive form of biometric. If facial recognition is the equivalent of pickpocketing your secrets, then a retinal scan equates to being mugged. If you see police photographers taking photographs of crowds (for instance, at a demonstration), you can safely assume that the faces in these photographs are being electronically analysed and catalogued.

You have no secrets

chris@seary.com — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:44:41 GMT

You have no secrets

You are being watched. You have no secrets. When you walk around the central London, you will be filmed by CCTV cameras 400 times within half an hour. Facial recognition software can scan these images. More of these cameras are filming road traffic. Number plates can be read electronically. The technology improves each year. When a policeman asks you where you were last Thursday, he’ll just be checking you’re telling the truth – he’ll already know precisely what you were doing. You are being watched. You have no secrets. Biometric information is being recorded by governments. ID cards will use this data to identify you. Your iris scans, retina pattern, fingerprints will be kept. The US government stores biometric data on you when you visit. The US government now has more information on British subjects than our own leaders. The human race is catalogued and monitored on a greater scale than ever before. You are being watched. You have no secrets. Your computer offers information about what you do and what you think. Google uses cookies. These cookies allow Google to catalogue all of your search queries and relate them back to you. You are being watched. You have no secrets. Don’t think that by deleting a file on you computer it is gone. It’s still there, waiting to be read by forensic teams. When you get rid of your computer, make sure you smash the hard drive to pieces with a hammer. You are being watched. You have no secrets.

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