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Technology far more secure, suitable for the wet environments of ports, less expensive and far more privacy-respecting exists and is available for demonstration. It is called "smart wallet" by NIST in its Biometrics and Security Systems and Applications Program. Of the 15 biometric tech standards recognized by NIST in its Program, solely the smart wallet was denied federal funding. Of the credentials in NIST's list, solely the smart wallet was denied a federal identification credentialing pilot!
The smart wallet inventor has readers made-up, and authenticates wallet holders in a split second with 100 % accuracy! TSA had been handling the Maritime ID and TSA insisted the team chief/program manager was exempt from FOIA! The recent plea deal taken by Mark Zachares (Rep. Young's aide) is related and if Rep. Young and the former House leadership weren't such crooks, the smart wallet platform could have been deployed immediately after the 2001 attacks! Immtec--the inventor of the smart wallet was founded in 1999 and Immtec already had proven its platform was possible 5 months before the attacks on the U.S.!
The maritime ID program always has been overrun by corruption! Never once did it open to consider any technology other than the biometric smart card! While not made public, I learned it is controlled by Lockheed and Lockheed is so corrupt it increasingly has taken to awarding contracts to itself while shutting-out the other biometric smart card companies--where they all have incompetent platforms! Lockheed was approached by Immtec in 10/02 and 8/04. Lockheed not only wants nothing to do with Immtec, but I learned it was Lockheed behind the GSA having Immtec's wallets banned from federal procurement in 10/02 because of our monopoly-power. Monopoly-power is not a legitimate excuse to ban a platform from federal procurement and the GSA today remains legally handicapped when it is Lockheed pulling its puppet strings.
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