On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:04:18 +0200 Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Orr Dunkelman <[email protected]> writes: > > > I personally do not trust the database, its holders, and advise > > anyone who knows me (including students in my courses) to never go > > into it. > > I wouldn't trust it either, but let's assume for a second that we do, > and that we see benefits in biometric identification. Does it strike > anyone else as rather weird that fingerprints have been chosen as the > basis of it over all the other possible biometrics? > > We leave fingerprints on just about everything we touch everywhere we > go, and they are relatively easy to lift and forge. This seems to me > bad for both privacy and security. Why wouldn't, say, iris scans be > preferable? > Just speaking for myself, I don't want random lights shining directly into my eyes. If one of them short circuits and goes overpower, I could get injured. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
