[CS-FSLUG] Fingerprint system
Vincent Danen
vdanen at linsec.ca
Tue Sep 25 00:34:09 CDT 2007
* Greg Slade <grgaslists at rogers.com> [2007-09-24 21:45:22 -0700]:
>> I have had 3 laptops over the last few years with
>> fingerprint scanners. They're actually quite nice, because
>> I can set some abhorent password that I don't really need
>> to remember, because I swipe my finger to login. And no
>> one else can get into my stuff as a result.
>
>Actually, while biometrics are all the rage, they're apparently not all
>that accurate. I've read that all you need to fool the fingerprint
>scanners built into laptops is some Silly Putty. So if you can set your
>laptop to require *both* a fingerprint *and* a password, that would
>certainly be more secure.
Hmmm... really? But does *my* fingerprint need to be on the silly
putty? Or just silly putty on it's own?
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Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/
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