Jim Walters

Glos, uk

Tech support

Whilst the idea or biometrics sounds good it is simply un-workable in the real world, in my opinion.

Firstly: there the cost, every point of entry in the the uk, every post office window, evry bank indow, evry police station, etc. will need a scanner, and there not cheep who's going to pay for that?
Secondly: what if you finger print is damaged or you loose and eye, how can you prove you are who you say you are?
Thirdly: what happens if the scanner give a false reading will a perfectly inocent person be arrested for teroisum because of a faulty scanner (who hasent have computer kit brake down?)
Fourthly: Lets face it criminals are going to hack it in a mater of days any way.

These are just a few of the problems.

This is just a nother scheme of "lets use a computer to fix it" touted by people who have no real idea of how the tech actually works. This seams to be a theam in all govenment tech projects, why don't thay just ask people like us.

BTW theres a system which would give the almost same level of protection but far more reliably and much much cheeper, its called a PIN and cash cards have been using it for years.