Simson Garfinkel

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Here's a paradox: the business of antivirus software has never been better. And yet the long-term prognosis in the antivirus battle has never been more bleak.

With face recognition systems turning up in airports, palm geometry scanners installed at "secure" Exodus Communications Inc. hosting facilities, and Panasonic Consumer Electronics Inc. selling the Authenticam iris recognition system for less than US$200, biometrics have finally moved from the laboratory to the marketplace. Indeed, the International Biometrics Group pegs the market at $524 million in 2001, growing to $729 million in 2002.