Fingerprint Advances Will Fight Cybercrime

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UB software is able to identify computer users even on the basis of partial prints of the same finger like those pictured here.
UB software is able to identify computer users even on the basis of partial prints of the same finger, like those pictured here.

Forgot your password? No problem. Biometrics researchers at the University at Buffalo have made important advances that bring closer the day when we can access devices and Web sites with nothing more than the touch of a fingertip.


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