I'm a little bit puzzled by the claim that this prevents sharing the locker (as a dead letter drop or whatever). How is it better than a physical key? If they have to meet to exchange the key, they could have met to exchange the contraband. Of course you can post a key, but given that locker hire these days is rarely permitted overnight, that isn't much advantage. And of course, if they used a "gummy finger", they could post that.

No doubt another advantage of the fingerprint scanning is that if a terrorist (unable to get his "large package" into the statue) leaves a bomb in the locker to take out the seven-deep queues, we will at least have a scan of one of his fingerprints. Unless he used gloves.

This is yet another example of the industry touting cheap, high EER biometric equipment for a job that would need expensive equipment and a human supervisor to actually do what is wanted.

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