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Doing Drugs? Beware of This Fingerprinting Device

Posted November 11, 2011 9:31 AM

From CNET News:

Handheld fingerprint drug testing tech being developed in the U.K. debuts in prototype form. Full production could begin next year.

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11/11/2011 9:55 AM

From the article:
"The firm describes the imaging of the print as containing a "watertight chain of evidence continuity" that is almost impossible to cheat."

So it is possible to cheat the device, resulting in erroneous indication.

Fail.

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11/11/2011 8:14 PM

1. What are the possibilities of a false positive?

2. Why are we chasing users when it is the dealers and traffickers who are creating all the violence? Don't we already have enough people in prison convicted of "victimless crimes"?
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11/12/2011 7:51 AM

Hey.....now we have self-perpetrating victim crime. It's a bit convoluted but suffice it to say that you're not allowed to abuse yourself with illegal substances........only legal ones!

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11/12/2011 9:43 PM

It's a bit convoluted but suffice it to say that you're not allowed to abuse yourself
there goes my weekend
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11/13/2011 9:52 AM

No worries......................you're just not allowed to get caught. I did a stellar job on myself last night.

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11/13/2011 11:40 AM

Fumblerules would have you serving ten years doing hard obfuscation .....!!!

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11/12/2011 7:57 AM

I'm glad alcohol isn't considered a drug. I'd be pulling a life sentence.

Hey wait a minute!!! The UK gives out free heroin to addicts. Will this device be used to insure that they've had their fix?

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11/12/2011 3:31 PM

Maybe some hombres from Ciudad Juarez might want to do something about this.

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