Message no. 1

From:	"Damion Milliken" <adm82@***.edu.au>
Subject:	Re: Smartgun
Date:	Sun, 19 Nov 1995 13:44:57 +1100 (EST)

Nathan Walker writes:

> I got my "Popular Mechanics" the yesterday (It's a geek magazine) and I
> saw something in it I thought was really cool. It's an article about
> "smart guns" which will only be able to fire if the owner of the gun is
> holding it. I just thought this was kind of an interesting forerunner to
> smartlinks, and I wondered if maybe there was any way to do something of
> the sort on a SR gun. There probably woundn't be all that much call for
> it, but it might be a little enhancement for the Sec gaurds...

I think it's already been done. Check out the "Individualized Biometric
Safety" system on page 71 of the Corp Security Handbook.

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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: adm82@***.edu.au
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