Word: fingerprinting
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...accident, went verbally ballistic on him when Pattinson honked his horn and finally yanked his glasses off. Simpson said Pattinson drove up behind him, sat on his horn and "went off" when approached. Wound alleged by plaintiff? A scratched temple. Such carnage! The best evidence was Simpson's fingerprint on the glasses, and the only witnesses were Simpson's kids, who were not called to the stand. Simpson said that when he called to tell them the verdict, "they were happy. They're kids," he added. "They're trusting...
...York City, predicts that by 2005, sales of biometric identification systems will rise to nearly $2 billion, from just $400 million last year, with commercial customers outspending the governments that now are the technology's primary buyers. "A bank might use 10 biometric systems--voice verification for the telephone, fingerprint for employees, iris scanning for the vault," says I.B.G. partner Raj Nanavanti...
...would like to emulate them. Their personal agendas are less important than who recruited them, financed them, oversaw their mission. As Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday, "When you are attacked by a terrorist and you know who the terrorist is and you can fingerprint it back to the cause of the terror, you should respond." Now the public tips and paper trails, worldwide investigation and local canvassing need to hunt down that fingerprint...
Consider Sarah Jusiewicz, now a sophomore. After becoming hooked as a teenager on such crime dramas as Dragnet and Diagnosis Murder, Jusiewicz knew she wanted to work in an FBI lab specializing in fingerprint analysis, ballistics and fiber comparison. So the New Jersey teenager applied to Appalachian, which offers a chemistry major with a forensic science concentration. The university's picturesque setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains didn't hurt its appeal...
Then I--or should I say Joel?--hit the Internet. The great thing about controlling another person's computer is that you can surf the Web as if you were him or her. When you go to a site, his or her IP address--a kind of digital fingerprint--is the one that gets left behind, not yours...