I have been using a fingerprint ready on a laptop for about a year and it is great, you can get cheaper devices. On anything that needs a password I can fill in the details, tell the security program to remember it and from then on only have to swipe my finger to get access to anything. Much easier and more secure than PINs and passwords and obviously you would have originally scanned multiple fingers in case of injury. The worry is, the possibility of losing a finger to a really insistent thief, but every system has its flaws. The sensor are getting better, they test the liveliness of the finger as well now, problems like thin skin for mainly people from china and cold climate can suffer from "weak biometrics". There is an intersting discussion forum if you're interested in these technologies. I have been researching biometrics for the last three years, I am a bit disappointed (I think) at how little progress has been made in testing, standards, and implementation. Perhaps everybody working on the problem of biometrics and the airport/Port of Entry problem would be doing most of us a big favour by focusing on the entire problem instead of the technology.
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I have been using a fingerprint ready on a laptop for about a year and it is great, you can get cheaper devices. On anything that needs a password I can fill in the details, tell the security program to remember it and from then on only have to swipe my finger to get access to anything. Much easier and more secure than PINs and passwords and obviously you would have originally scanned multiple fingers in case of injury. The worry is, the possibility of losing a finger to a really insistent thief, but every system has its flaws. The sensor are getting better, they test the liveliness of the finger as well now, problems like thin skin for mainly people from china and cold climate can suffer from "weak biometrics". There is an intersting discussion forum if you're interested in these technologies. I have been researching biometrics for the last three years, I am a bit disappointed (I think) at how little progress has been made in testing, standards, and implementation. Perhaps everybody working on the problem of biometrics and the airport/Port of Entry problem would be doing most of us a big favour by focusing on the entire problem instead of the technology.
regards
Ray
http://www.thebiometrix.com
http://biometrix.blogspot.com