| From: | rothgefa@*******.com (Robert Fanning) |
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| Subject: | SINs and biometrics |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:46:07 +1000 |
- for one reason - to identity you with the actual numbers in the databases.
That is why most shadowrunners don't have SINs (or at least real ones
anyway).
Unless, as a part of the verification procedure, you are finger printed,
retinal scanned, etc, this is not an issue (which is why credsticks,
certified or otherwise, have DNA scans for large ammounts or mere passcodes
for small ammounts).
However, if the data associated with the SIN number is incorrect in the
first place, they are not going to be able to identify you from your SIN
number.
Some data about a person will not change - such as blood type (unless they
recently had a large transfusion), but as a person ages they tend tol become
slightly shorter and put on weight.
Generally, you want the biometric data to be close, but not close enough for
a scan of every database in the world to be tracked back to you (3 metre
trolls males do not usually carry ID for a 1 metre tall Dryad - people would
get suspicious).
Of course, with ritual samples, all bets are off - it doesn't matter whether
you are in the database or not - when fire elementals come a' calling, they
don't look you up in the phone book.
<@^@> put "Hey Robert!" (without quotes) in the subject line to bypass my
junk mail filter and do not mention any sort of word associated with
commercial transactions.
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