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Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:57:44 -0800
- Message-id: <200703241257.52772.jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 24 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
> If someone steals your fingerprints, you're stuck. Over-reliance on
> biometrics may create more problems than it solves.
Not as long as I have one more finger. I can always start
using a different finger for the reader.
The replication of the finger print is a bit beyond the skills of
the ordinary snatch-n-run artist. Some one has been watching
too much CSI: Miami.
But for those one-in-a-million thiefs that used to work for the
CIA or the KGB and who passed their finger print replication class, I
would have to concede that when they ripped off my laptop they also
got a complete set of my prints thrown in for free.
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John Andersen
> If someone steals your fingerprints, you're stuck. Over-reliance on
> biometrics may create more problems than it solves.
Not as long as I have one more finger. I can always start
using a different finger for the reader.
The replication of the finger print is a bit beyond the skills of
the ordinary snatch-n-run artist. Some one has been watching
too much CSI: Miami.
But for those one-in-a-million thiefs that used to work for the
CIA or the KGB and who passed their finger print replication class, I
would have to concede that when they ripped off my laptop they also
got a complete set of my prints thrown in for free.
--
_____________________________________
John Andersen
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