UK biometric passport scheme nipped in the bud?

[John Young]

> It's a real pity that no manufacturers of fingerprint sensors
> were present.

There were reports from Japan that the researchers feared
publishing their findings on the Internet -- due to the substantial
investment by giant Japanese firms in the technology.

What the gummy paper charts of the 11 systems tested is
the business/government threat stuff:

  http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm

This chart does not appear in the published slide show version 
of the research. Similarly, the Dutch researchers who in 2001 
published similar findings did not name the manufacturers:

  http://cryptome.org/fake-fingers.htm

This reminds of other attempts to suppress research findings
in order to protect us from our terrifying researchers who refuse
to mind their government and business manners to assure no 
holes are revealed in pork-funded similitude security.

Fake, fake, fake. Fingers in the pie.