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Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger
John Leyden, The Register 2005-04-04

A Malaysian businessman has lost a finger to car thieves impatient to get around his Mercedes' fingerprint security system. Accountant K Kumaran, the BBC reports, had at first been forced to start the S-class Merc, but when the carjackers wanted to start it again without having him along, they chopped off the end of his index finger with a machete.

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Biometrics; PIN Numbers 2005-04-06
Anonymous
There are devices out there that can detect the blood flow in an extremity. Oxygen saturation monitors in hospitals do this. If the fingerprint reader was designed to also watch for blood flow, it would defeat the idea of lopping off someone's finger or making a mold of the fingerprint.

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