Almost entirely off-topic rant - apologies in advance:::

[Brian Morrison]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:03:24 +0100
David_Biggins@usermgmt.com wrote:

> AND JUST HOW LONG BEFORE THIS INFORMATION IS PASSED TO THE POLICE
> NATIONAL COMPUTER? 

Well, not to pour cold water on your theory, but in the same article it
does say that MLS state that the software does not store fingerprints in
their original form, it instead stores an encrypted version of the
'points' in the fingerprint so that reconstructing the fingerprint is
supposed to be fairly hard. I can't say that I know what the encryption
used is, nor how the fingerprint is distilled into recognition points,
but this is a little different from the gist of your posting.

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Brian Morrison