To what extent does fingerprint recognition enhance or limit our freedom?
Freedom is the liberty of person from detention and dependence. This concept will be further referred in the essay. To set such freedom, human kind has developed so many types of security systems. One of them is fingerprint recognition. It is referred as a method of verifying a person’s identity by matching his fingerprint with the one of him taken before as the sample. Most of us think that fingerprint recognition is way more secure, and accordingly freedom enhancing than using keys or passwords. But does that really fit the reality? To figure out this, it is important to determine to what extent does fingerprint recognition enhance or limit our freedom. Because, the usage of fingerprint recognition, today is growing and growing. For example, the time attendance machine with built-in fingerprint recognition or door lock. It is important to know the truth about them.
It is proven that two persons can hardly possibly have exactly the same fingerprints, as far as two like fingerprints would be found only once every 1048 years. Thus, using door secure system or employee’s time attendance-tracking system with built-in fingerprint recognition is considered to be safe. Because, if your fingerprint sample have already been entered to the database, then the machine will always recognize and match the sample with your fingerprint, while stranger’s fingerprints will be rejected. That is the way fingerprint recognitions enhance our freedom, as long as it allows us keeping our properties private, being safe from criminal strangers.
However, there are evidences that refute this. Both optical and ultrasonic fingerprint recognition systems could be cheated just with printed image or jelly print (alike to real finger with 3D effects) of the fingerprint. The Discovery channel show “The Myth busters” has proven it with their quite convincing experiments. They tried to get access to the door with fingerprint lock with different options of prints and have come to that the myth
It is proven that two persons can hardly possibly have exactly the same fingerprints, as far as two like fingerprints would be found only once every 1048 years. Thus, using door secure system or employee’s time attendance-tracking system with built-in fingerprint recognition is considered to be safe. Because, if your fingerprint sample have already been entered to the database, then the machine will always recognize and match the sample with your fingerprint, while stranger’s fingerprints will be rejected. That is the way fingerprint recognitions enhance our freedom, as long as it allows us keeping our properties private, being safe from criminal strangers.
However, there are evidences that refute this. Both optical and ultrasonic fingerprint recognition systems could be cheated just with printed image or jelly print (alike to real finger with 3D effects) of the fingerprint. The Discovery channel show “The Myth busters” has proven it with their quite convincing experiments. They tried to get access to the door with fingerprint lock with different options of prints and have come to that the myth