Yes, I have seen those movies. But no one will chop off your finger so they can get access to your computer, unless you have a high security job. For the average person who wants to add more of a convenience feature with a little bit more of security, then they will be fine with a fingerprint scanner, and not have to worry about someone hunting them down, killing them, then chopping off their computer in "hopes" that they will find something good on their computer. If the person was really smart they would realize that they done need the windows password in order to get access to the files on the computer, but can rather slave the drive to another machine and go looking through the files in the file explorer. With that said, then you should enable a full drive encryption tool that encrypts all of your files on your computer so you would need a password in order to see any files on it no matter what you do. And if you are really, really smart, you wouldn't even use a fingerprint scanner to input your password to get into the computer, but rather memorize the password so that you give even less chance that someone will get on. I have a 16 character alpha-numeric password in order to get into my computer, and it takes me 5 seconds tops to type it in. I can easily make it alpha-numeric-mixed case as well and not have to worry too hard about memorizing it. Instead of memorizing the password, I am memorizing the algorithm that is used to make the password.
Hopefully everyone enjoyed my rambling of good v. bad on fingerprint scanners/ computer security. Mike Wohlrab Computer Technology Solutions 585-944-3823 www.mikewohlrab.com ftp://mikewohlrab.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Fingerprint scanner On Jan 28, 2008 1:43 PM, Mike Wohlrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is it useless to have the ability to scan your fingerprint or type in a > password? If the fingerprint scanner fails, then you might be locked out as > there wouldn't be any other way to get into your computer if you can't > manually type in a password. If you are thinking about getting a fingerprint > scanner to have more security to make sure that someone cant guess/ crack > your password, then you have way too weak of a password and need to make a > stronger one. Mike, haven't you watched any movies where they chop off someones hand/head to activate a bio scanner? Same problem with a fingerprint scanner, except it's easier to chop off a finger. -- Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/!&[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
