What about eye iris scans? Someone can cut your fingers off but cutting your eyes off? I imagine that the gelatinous nature of eye matter would make it very hard if not impossible to remove the eye to hold it in front of a scanner for an accurate reading.
Rich On Friday 23 March 2007 19:12, Michael Skiba wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 14:21 schrieb Carlos E. R.: > > The Thursday 2007-03-22 at 08:42 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote: > > > Remember however, that biometric is never a replacement for a password! > > > Fingerprints can be forged/copied > > > > Dunno about that, but they can be stolen, ie, the finger removed from > > it's owner... I don't like biometrics unless they can prove the owner is > > alive an undamaged (and make sure the bad guys know that and don't try to > > fool the system just in case) :-( > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Carlos E. R. > > Uhm.. we're talking about laptops, right? > For private usage, to make it more difficult to get access to the "lost" > files?! > We're not talking about a military/scientific/top secret or something > similar which is worth beeing killed for, right? > > For the later thing I guess I'd prefer a gun next to my head make me reveal > the password instead of getting my fingers cut, that's true :D > > Best regardes > Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
