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idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 days agoFingerprint matching in the 60s sounds, uh, time intensive.
Comment on How sad for you
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 days agoFingerprint matching in the 60s sounds, uh, time intensive.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 days ago
If you want to go down a rabbithole, look up the early days of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
Hoover got the job because he was a bureaucrat, not a lawman. He would have his people build giant files by hand on anyone of interest.