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Once a tool primarily used by law enforcement to help identify criminals, biometric technologies increasingly are being used by government and the private sector to authenticate a person’s identity, provide security at the nation’s borders and restrict access to secure sites—both buildings and computer networks. New software and other tools that can be used to help build improved biometric applications are now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [Note: There is a world of difference between Free/Open Source Software, which is copyrighted material, and public domain source code, which... well, is not copyrighted. - dcparris

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