JIMINATOR
04-04-2005, 03:27 PM
http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop/
Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger
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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the rest of the article is more about biometric security, but that must have really sucked....
Carjackers swipe biometric Merc, plus owner's finger
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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the rest of the article is more about biometric security, but that must have really sucked....