Instant Science

Here you can find some personal reflections on issues concerning my professional interests.

These include Business Process Management, Organization Design, and the use of information technology in a wide sense.

Disclaimer: This blog is not an official Gartner publication. The content represents my personal point of view, but not necessarily the official standpoint of my employer.

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ministerial Fingerprint

In the latest version of the Datenschleuder, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has published a fingerprint of Germany's Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble. It also contains an instruction how to make fake fingerprint that can be attached to another person's fingertip.

The CCC has been fighting authorities' data acquisitiveness for quite some time now, and this scoop will hopefully fuel this discussion and make a broader audience aware of what threat to personal integrity the widespread use of biometrical data constitutes.

BTW, this is the fingerprint:

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