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游客2023-08-09  13
问题    A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips.
   Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunei University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.
   The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in "serious talks" with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
   It works by using infrared (红外线) to scan people’s finger veins and then links this unique biometric (生物特征识别的) map to their bank cards. Customers’ bank details are then stored with payment provider Worldpay, in the same way you can store your card details when shopping online. Shoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with nothing on them but their own hands and use it to make payments in just three seconds.
   It comes as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition, used widely on mobile phones, is vulnerable to being hacked and can be copied even from finger smears left on phone screens.
   But Sthaler claims vein technology is the most secure biometric identification method as it cannot be copied or stolen.
   Sthaler said dozens of students were already using the system and it expected 3,000 students out of 13,000 to have signed up by November.
   Vein scanners are also used as a way of accessing high-security UK police buildings and authorising internal trading at least one major British investment bank.
   The firm is also in discussions with nightclubs, gyms about using the technology to verify membership and even Premier League football clubs to check people have the right access to VIP hospitality areas.
   The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein pattern in your finger. It requires the person to be alive, meaning in the unlikely event a criminal hacks off someone’s finger, it would not work. Sthaler said it takes just one minute to sign up to the system initially and, after that, it takes just seconds to place your finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket checkout.
   Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told the Daily Telegraph: "This makes payments so much easier for customers. They don’t need to carry cash or cards. They don’t need to remember a pin number. You just bring yourself. This is the safest form of biometrics. There are no known incidences where this security has been breached. When you put your finger in the scanner it checks you are alive, it checks for a pulse, and it checks for haemoglobin (血红蛋白). Your vein pattern is secure because it is kept on a database in an encrypted form, as binary numbers. No card details are stored with the retailer or ourselves, it is held with Worldpay, in the same way it is when you buy online. " [br] As to the technology developed by his company, Simon Binns pointed out that______.
选项 A、there was no use paying with someone else’s finger
B、customers didn’t have to waste energy memorizing ID numbers
C、no severe safety accidents arose in its system
D、neither Sthaler nor the sellers preserved customers’ card details
答案 D
解析 推理判断题。最后一段末句提到，任何银行卡的详细信息都不会存储在零售商或斯泰勒公司那里，而是存储在Worldpay那里，这和网购时的存储方式一样。该段第一句提到，西蒙-宾斯是斯泰勒公司的商务总监。由此推测，斯泰勒公司和卖方都不会保留用户的银行卡信息，故答案为D)。A)“使用他人的手指进行付款是没有用的”，原文未提及，故排除；B)“顾客不必浪费精力记住身份号码”，本段提到顾客无须记住密码，而不是身份号码，故排除；C)“在其系统中未发生过严重的安全事故”，本段提到目前该安全系统遭到破解的事件还没有发生，C)项与原文不一致，故排除。
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