CSM: Want to use the Web? Your fingerprint, please.

[unhappycamper]

Want to use the Web? Your fingerprint, please.
By Amanda Paulson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the June 02, 2005 edition

CHICAGO – Soon, patrons of the Naperville Public Library - at least those wanting to use the Internet - will need more than a library card.

They'll give a fingerprint.

It sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel, but the new requirement is in many ways unsurprising.

The library, like other Internet providers nationwide, has realized computer users aren't always who they say they are. And the technology it will use to check up on them is fairly simple - patrons will press a glass-topped scanner.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0602/p01s04-ussc.html

[gandalf]

1. Finally a good idea! Now I feel much more secure

All these terrorists, using library computers to plan their attacks, have to be stopped. This library showed courage!

And all these blogs and discussion boards on the internet where one can post anonymously are a great danger to our liberty and safety as well.