It analyzes the technologies that governments and companies use to see who we are things such as national identification systems, biometrics, and online identity.

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Since there are so many security holes in web browsers, servers and operating systems, using biometrics to secure online transactions looks like overkill.

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Systems based on voice biometrics look more user-friendly: people already use telephones, and can do so on the move.

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The point is that just because biometrics can be used to make systems extremely secure does not mean that the technology always has to be deployed in that way.

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The high-performance systems that Lockheed Martin develops require a range of technologies, including cloud computing, biometrics, information management, modeling and simulation, precision pointing, energy management and storage, optics and electro-optics, and nanotechnology.

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