Fujitsu's palm reader also does Tarot and biometrics
By Ryan Block 
posted March 11th 2005 4:09PM
posted March 11th 2005 4:09PM
It's nice to know someone's looking out to protect us against all those latex-mold equipped identity-forging criminals looking to gain access into the top secret vaults of our finger-scanning biometric USB drives. Fujitsu's demoing a new infrared palm scanner called the Contactless Palm Vein Authentication System (CPVAS, eh?), which instead of scanning fingerprints, scans vein structures in the user's hand without actually making contact with the hand. Apparently they've already perfected it to within a 0.5% false acceptance rate—certainly pretty decent for a prototype. As always, just make sure not to get your hand chopped off by corporate spies, okay?
"pretty decent" -- wtf -- 5% false acceptance sucks!!!
So, to break into a computer, you just need to try 200 times and you are bound to get in.
(yes, I read the part about being a prototype...)
"pretty decent" -- wtf -- 5% false acceptance sucks!!!
So, to break into a computer, you just need to try 200 times and you are bound to get in.
(yes, I read the part about being a prototype...)
If it's infrared, doesn't it mean that your hand has to be warm and therefore not disembodied?
isn't it 0.5%, or 2000 times?
.5% != 5%
And for a prototype, .5% is damn good for biometric devices. Even fingerprint recognition isn't 100% accurate and that's been around for many years.
Doesn't matter for warmth anyways. Vein patterns change after death, so slicing off your hand and subsequently microwaving it wouldn't work. Plus, isn't foolable like fingerprints (yay for jello molds), or even iris scanning (hold up pic of irises with holes cut in center for pupils).
the text on the "cancel" button has the font of the crest toothpaste label