12:56 FBI analyzes 200 000 fingerprints a day | |
| Every time you enter the U.S. at the airport you are fingerprinted using a wireless scanner. The prints will be instantly sent to a special FBI lab, where the minute they drive off to the database. Journalists from the transfer CrimeTracker 10 managed to visit the secret lab. The article gives a pretty interesting statistics of the volume of work that has to do supercomputing FBI. All the illustrations in the text - frames made in the laboratory. A huge repository of fingerprints has an area of ??two football stadiums. There are stored fingerprints 60 million people, including 600 000 samples, whose owners have not yet been identified (there are many criminals walking free?). Of course, all these samples are available in digital form, but the paper still hold just in case. Each new stamp system runs on a digital database with samples. FBI agents at crime scene now use special wireless fingerprint scanners, which immediately sent the samples to the laboratory. Every day, the system receives from the operational services of 200,000 sets of fingerprints to be immediately reviewed. Speed ??run of each sample - up to seven seconds. In each set, usually at ten fingers, so that the number of the analyzed fingerprints is approximately two million. If you count the number of comparisons, it is 600 billion per day. The computer analysis of fingerprints the police makes 15,000 arrests per month. Submit difficult, to what size grows, the database, if there add as retinal scans, biometric face and other biometric information. Work on filling of the database is already underway. By the way, parallel to the filled material and additional databases for recognizing tattoos and fingerprints wrist. Via Wired | |
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