keywords: fingerprint fingerprints security border checks
text: 2-Fingerprint Border ID System Called Inadequate (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Terrorists who alter their fingerprints have about an even chance of slipping past U.S. border watch-list checks because the government is using a two-fingerprint system instead of one that relies on all 10 prints, a lawmaker said in a letter he made public yesterday to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.