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The answer to this problem is to create a technology which allows for easy replication of fingerprints once you have a digital copy. Once that technology exist

The answer to this problem is to create a technology which allows for easy replication of fingerprints once you have a digital copy. Once that technology exists it will completely remove the use and value of fingerprints since the existence of a finger print won't prove anything. 3D printers could provide that system as long as they are precise enough to print fingerprints at scale.

bradleysmith 13y ago
That's an interesting solution. re-create some super VIP's prints and plant them in undesirable places they obviously did not go to; then publicize it. Render the whole 'fingerprint as an identifier' thing with uncertainty and doubt. I believe Objet/Stratsys still have the highest resolution printers at 16 micron layers and 30 micron-width droplets. A quick google search says the papillary ridges of a fingerprint could be safely assumed at between .020 and 2.0mm in height[1]; that might be printable now. Fun thought, anyway. [1]-http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=216913 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=216913