First of all I think that it should be [OT] now if everyone agrees :-)


> mag stripe writers are still out of the reach  of most people who are just
> looking to play with the cards.  I have a box  of 500 blank cards that never
> bought a writer for.  Thanks to the satellite  industry. smart card writers are
> available for less than 60.00 in some  cases. And forget about the coding., it
> would probably be broken in a manner of  months thereby making the swap to
> them useless.

I saw a bunch of smartcards being sold at a local flea market for $1 each :-)


> About the only really sure way I can think of is either by fingerprint
> recognition (which you would never be able to keep clean) and retina  recognition.
> ( I have no knowledge of this one)

Just being humorous, retina scan and fingerprint can make it worse. At
least now you don't have to worry about someone cutting your finger
and taking cash out from the ATM :-)

Best way would be to have DNA sampling :-) Like in the movie Judge
Dredd where each bullet fired from a judge's gun has his DNA stamp on
it. :-) The gun only activates after user's DNA authentication.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113492/

Just tried to entertain the group :-)

Regards,

Chetan Bhargava
Web: http://www.bhargavaz.net
Blog: http://microz.blogspot.com
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