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From: dbell@maths.tcd.ie (Derek Bell)
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Subject: Re: One Step...
Message-ID: <236@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 17 Jan 89 16:53:09 GMT
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In article <69@poppy.warwick.ac.uk> maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox) writes:
>How about using some kind of DNA finger printing? - take a small sample
>of blood (ouch!) and check on this. This would be almost impossible to fool.

		Er, couldn't this be fooled by an identical twin?
Come to think of it, how much of the DNA would be scanned? DNA has an enormous
information "density". 

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