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Re:Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print bio... by TheParkShark on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:51PM (#28043696)
Does it provide anything an ancient ATM doesn’t?
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Re:Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print bio... by atatatat on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:46PM (#28044133)
Clout.

Security. Or a cut off hand?

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Re:Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print bio... by PaulHoule on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:10AM (#28050130)
The cut off hand doesn't work. The scanner sees the blood moving through your veins the same way a smartwatch can read your pulse.

You'd have better luck making a silicone replica and pumping fake blood through it. Maybe you could use infrared LEDs to simulate the changing image too... (Is there some simple way to make an infrared projector? Anyway stealing your palm image is as easy as it is for the ATM to read it.)

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