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Nature 420, 739 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420739a

Biometrics was no match for hair-raising tricks

Michael M. Bronstein1 & Alexander M. Bronstein1

  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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People have been fooling the latest thing in security for a very long time.

Although biometric technology is believed to be a product of the hi-tech era, it is not, in fact, our generation's invention. People were using biometric technology long before the word 'biometric' was coined (see Nature 418, 583; 200210.1038/418583a