“The documents were forged Labour Market Impact Assessments, or LMIAs. Employers typically receive the documents from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) if they want to hire a foreign worker.”
Biometrics aren’t enough. The person may be who they say they are, but the documentation they are holding may be fake.
Now that it’s showing up in search, I will announce what I’ve done. Although I shouldn’t have done it.
I created my own Meta AI character on Instagram.
I was nosing around in my Instagram settings and discovered I could create an AI bot. So I did. You may or may not be able to create your own: see https://help.instagram.com/1675196359893731 for instructions.
“His” name is N. P. E. Bredemarket. Regular Bredemarket blog readers know that NPE stands for non-person entity.
When a car pulls up to you, do you want to look inside?
Here’s another question: when a car pulls up to you, and you’re a law enforcement officer, do you want to look inside?
And here’s a third: if you’re driving a car, how much window tint should the car windows have?
The answer to that third question varies on a state-by-state basis, which also affects the effectiveness around the second question.
I’ll use my state of California as an example. According to the “Window Tinting Laws By State” page on Geoshield’s website, the Visible Light Transmission (VLT) percentage on car windows depends on which car window you’re talking about.
For the front side windows, the minimum VLT value is 70%.
For back side windows and rear windows, any VLT value is allowed.
For the windshield, the minimum VLT value is 100%, except on the top 4 inches of the windshield.
But VLT percentages vary on a state-by-state basis. In Arkansas, front and back side windows have a minimum VLT of 25%.
And I would bet that if someone in California drives to Arkansas with “excessive” back side window tinting, they can get in trouble…if the highway patrol officer notices.
So if you’re a criminal, and you don’t want a law enforcement officer to see you, it’s safest for you to sit in the back seat. If you’re a rich criminal, you’re probably being chauffeured anyway, so this should be easy.
By the way, how many of you figured out why I’m asking these questions?
“The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that Mitre, which has run the CVE Program since its launch in 1999, can continue to do so until early March 2026.
“This is a temporary solution. Clearly, the U.S. government wants to get rid of CISA paying for the CVE program. Someone else needs to seize the funding and governance reigns, and the opportunity to do so allows for creating a less U.S.-centric endeavor.”
If a new funding mechanism can ensure technical program continuity—while at the same time providing the $30 million business continuity by shielding the program from the chaotic whims of one country and one person—then this could be a long term solution.
The cybersecurity ecosystem has a little over 10 months to figure out how to fund the CVE program beginning in 2026.
Which means that nothing of substance will get done for the next 9 months. (How’s that TikTok sale going?)
Well, maybe North Korea will volunteer to fund the program…
I wanted to write a list of the biometric modalities for which I provide experience.
So I started my usual list from memory: fingerprint, face, iris, voice, and DNA.
Then I stopped myself.
My experience with skin goes way beyond fingerprints, since I’ve spent over two decades working with palm prints.
(Can you say “Cambridgeshire method”? I knew you could. It was a 1990s method to use the 10 standard rolled fingerprint boxes to input palm prints into an automated fingerprint identification system. Because Cambridgeshire had a bias to action and didn’t want to wait for the standards folks to figure out how to enter palm prints. But I digress.)
So instead of saying fingerprints, I thought about saying friction ridges.
But there are two problems with this.
First, many people don’t know what “friction ridges” are. They’re the ridges that form on a person’s fingers, palms, toes, and feet, all of which can conceivably identify individuals.
But there’s a second problem. The word “friction” has two meanings: the one mentioned above, and a meaning that describes how biometric data is captured.
No, there is not a friction method to capture faces. Squishing
If you have to do something to provide your biometric data, such as press your fingers against a platen, that’s friction.
If you don’t have to do anything other than wave your fingers, hold your fingers in the air, or show your face as you stand near or walk by a camera, that’s frictionless.
More and more people capture friction ridges with frictionless methods. I did this years ago using MorphoWAVE at MorphoTrak facilities, and I did it today at Whole Foods Market.
So I could list my biometric modalities as friction ridge (fingerprint and palm print via both friction and frictionless capture methods), face, iris, voice, and DNA.
But I won’t.
Anyway, if you need content, proposal, or analysis assistance with any of these modalities, Bredemarket can help you. Book a meeting at https://bredemarket.com/cpa/
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