Monday, July 26, 2010

Bird’s eye view on finger print impression testing

If we talk about various forensic tests, the first thing that comes to our mind is the finger print impression testing. The term finger print impression testing is stapled with the forensic as well as the investigation departments. Even in movies whenever we come across a crime scene, surely we are shown few techniques of finger print impression test. The finger print impression test is executed by the forensic department, which is a matchless and private type of test to spot a clue of a crime and the criminal. The forensic science or simply forensic is a department of science which gives effort to answer various question which deals with the interest of the legal system of a city or state. The department of forensic is in relation with a crime or a civil action.


There are several tests and techniques which are helpful to find out the criminal who has committed a crime in a city or state. This becomes easier if the data of the criminal is available in the record file of the forensic department. The finger print impression testing is one of the prime most forensic tests that are very helpful to identify or trace the criminal. The finger print impression test is also known as an identification test of the crime. The most interesting fact of this finger print impression testing is that the finger prints of the murderer or criminal which is collected from the palm impression of the culprit is unique and will have no resemblance with anyone else’s finger print on earth. There are various devices and methods which are used for finger print impression test.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

What is Digital finger printing technology?

The criminals keep on doing misdeeds and they think that they are too clever to leave any clue for the investigators, but they are unaware of the strict legal rules and the advancements in the field of science and forensic department. Out of all new technology the digital finger printing technology is really interesting to know and follow. The digital fingerprinting is widely applicable in today’s modern day and age. It is a development of the internet and multimedia techniques. Since the transfer of data via multimedia and internet has increased a lot, so the necessity of securing the data has also become very important.

We know that the data that is send from one user to the other user is surely secured by encrypting it (which the sender does positively before sending) but the security finishes especially at the receiver’s end when decryption of the data is done. Digital fingerprinting is a kind of application which will protect the data from the unauthorized users. Whenever a theft of data takes place, then the digital finger printing is used to find out the thief or culprit. The method is very easy. A hidden ID is fixed into each user’s copy while interchanging of any data. This ID helps the user to catch the thief.