>>Not only are mag-stripe cards old hat, but contacted (ISO-7816, not =
>-7815)
>>smartcards are old hat, too!  See our contactless smartcard web page at
>>www.racom.com.
>
>Talking about old hats - I thought all personal identification was done =
>in fingerprint scanners nowadays? No cards to issue, carry around, =
>forget and lose... Identifying vehicles (which was originally the topic) =
>should of course be done via license-plate reading cameras.

But a smartcard is a writeable, portable reservoir of data; your fingertip
can't do that!  (You really don't propose a fingerprint database to allow
entering a subway or bus, do you?)  A smartcard can be a vessel of value,
or a delegated agent to execute your bidding.  You're thinking of something
like ``RFID'' -- which is read-only.  We do ``RFTP'' -- Radio-Frequency
Transaction Processing, which is read AND write, with security, at a wave
of your hand.

Peter F. Klammer, Racom Systems Inc.                   PKlammer@ACM.Org
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