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I do know a bunch that get *extra* work done on existing ink.
Wouldn't that be a little difficult for this system to sort out?]]>Jun 23rd 2008 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/
but if youre in a gang, youd think that you would have more than one tattoo... and youd think that gangs would have gang tattoos that have a little bit something original on them, like a nick name or something

i dunno really, im just a white boy from canada, i dont "do" gangs]]>Jun 22nd 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/

Like the cub scouts.... and um err ]]>Jun 22nd 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/
Note that this system would also factor in natural scarring. For example I could be recognized within this database as one who has an eye-like scar on my right shoulder (a mole was growing there was I was young, had to have it removed), and one who has second degree burns on his left foot (scalding hot water from a pot when the handle broke. ]]>Jun 22nd 2008 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/
This is quite interesting, as for Dr Zoidberg's comment. make up won't do anything to stop these scanners, skin grafts will, but laser removal will still leave scars behind.]]>Jun 22nd 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/The same system can be ued to analyze and compare traces of DNA for identification, but at the moment it is illegal to use.]]>Jun 22nd 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/]]>Jun 22nd 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/Jun 22nd 2008 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/22/researcher-crafts-tattoo-scar-matching-system-to-nab-outlaws/
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"Your honor, this photo we have of a tattoo matches the suspect's tattoo exactly."
"Where did you get the photo?"
"Um, well, um...."
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