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...fingerprint project, the most ambitious ever undertaken by the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence community, grows out of the U.S. effort to locate and neutralize the 10,000 or so men who went through Al-Qaeda terror camps and are now dispersed in sleeper cells around the world. U.S. counter-terrorism investigators, sifting through interviews with detainees in Guantanamo and documents seized in Afghanistan and Pakistan, place top priority on pinning down the true names and nationalities of these Al-Qaeda operatives. Once that's been accomplished, U.S. agencies canvass security services where the terrorists resided for fingerprints. Mugshots...
While more and more entrepreneurs are getting into the genetic paternity-testing business, their traditional competitors are raising doubts about the scientific quality of the work. "A DNA fingerprint that is based on a PCR examination alone is insufficient," argues Helmut Adamek, president of the official Association of Experts for Certificates of Parentage. Like legal opinions, he argues, the tests carried out by commercial labs should comprise a second procedure "to exclude analytic errors." Still, DNA fingerprints have an accuracy rate...
...other would be in charge of law enforcement. Another bill, which passed the House last week, would add 1,000 agents to track down unwanted aliens; close the vast loopholes in the student-visa program; allocate $150 million for border-policing technology, including biometrics that could electronically identify fingerprints; and mandate a shared-information platform with the Justice and State departments to keep potential terrorists from falling through the cracks. Even today, for instance, the INS and FBI fingerprint systems can't cross-reference. The same bill has been proposed in the Senate, but it is snarled in a procedural...
...Czech Republic's RadioMobil. He says RadioMobil will embrace IMEI-based measures once manufacturers come up with serial numbers that can't be altered. Handset makers counter that in the latest phones, the chips containing the IMEIs are much less hackable. They are also experimenting with iris and fingerprint identification technology, although at present such measures would make a handset very expensive...
...amid several positive steps last week in the nation's recovery from the anthrax attacks--a doubling of the reward for information to $2.5 million; news that scientists at the Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland were close to making a genetic fingerprint of the anthrax powder; the reopening of the freshly decontaminated Hart Senate Office Building--USAMRIID itself was under attack. The Army was scrambling last week to answer charges that controls inside the lab over the past decade were at best lax and at worst scandalous. The reports added support to a growing suspicion that whoever sent...