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by syshum 2990 days ago
> They are unique enough

You know this how? There has not actually been in real studies done, and the FBI and Law Enforcement resist any efforts to do studies on how Unique Fingerprints really are.

It is the bedrock of criminal prosecution many centuries, but they do not want any public analysis into how many people share similar prints..

Print Reading, even by a computer, is more of an art form, a massive guess, than it is a science.