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Don't see why not - police rely on fingerprints to track theft right? Not much different conceptually.

• sidewndr46 4y ago
  I'm not sure of the actual prevalence of police using fingerprints to track down theft. It is however accepted as a piece of evidence in various criminal courts, so one would expect it to hold up in a non-criminal court as well. The difference is I didn't choose my fingerprints nor did the police. It's also really, really hard to get rid of them OR to have someone else with the same fingerprints as mine.
  • btilly 4y ago
    It is prevalent. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Automated_Fingerprint_Identification_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Automated_Fingerpri.... That said, faking them is easier than you might think. https://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall03/ref/gummy-slides.pdf https://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall03/ref/gummy-slides.p... Incidentally the idea of fingerprinting really was popularized by Mark Twain: https://www.courthousenews.com/mark-twains-fingerprints/ https://www.courthousenews.com/mark-twains-fingerprints/
    • sidewndr46 4y ago
      What I meant by faking fingerprints was creating another living human being with my same fingerprints. It's obviously trivial to create fingerprint evidence.
      • btilly 4y ago
        It is not just that you can create fingerprint evidence. It is that you can create fingerprint evidence in normal interactions with fingerprint systems in ways that leave no other evidence, and are unlikely to draw scrutiny from nearby humans.