Malicious people will cut off your finger. Don't laugh, it has happened
before. There are proven cases,
e.g. where a carjacker cut off the finger of his victim in order to be able
to steal the car.
Newer fingerprint reader technologies actually account for this pretty
well. A detached
On 2/5/07, Steven Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Newer fingerprint reader technologies actually account for this pretty
well. A detached finger is seen as a spoof attempt, if it even images
properly at all. Your information on these sensors, like most people, is
outdated. And I don't
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:11:41AM -0700, Ben Burdette wrote:
Here are a couple of items for the phone wish list: data encryption and
biometric security.
data encryption will not be that much of a problem. There will not
[yet] be a easy-to-use user interface, but we will have dm-crypt
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:45:55PM -0500, Heilpern, Mark wrote:
Unfortunately I couldn't provide 100% open source on the driver or the
application libraries.
That's not the point. Just send your device[s] to the Berlin CCC (feel
free to route it via me). A proprietary windows app for
Harald Welte wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:45:55PM -0500, Heilpern, Mark wrote:
In any case, to get back to the Neo1973, or even future phones: I don't
think that there are many sensors that fulfill the following criteria
1) full hardware docs (may be under NDA, but allowing GPL
Salve Ben!
First it sounds a very smart idea to have biometric security,
but sorry, when I give you some sceptical feedback.
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007, Ben Burdette wrote:
Here are a couple of items for the phone wish list: data encryption and
biometric security.
Biometric security wasn't
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:32 -0700, Knight Walker wrote:
http://www.projectblackdog.com/
Yeah. Too bad that company is going under. :)
I actually have two of these and I love them. I lost faith in the
company and they lost my support because I have yet to see them announce
their
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There are many competing technologies behind fingerprint scanning and
evaluation techniques, some
: Thursday, 1 February 2007 1:46 PM
To: community@lists.openmoko.org
Subject: RE: data encryption + Biometric security
Unfortunately I couldn't provide 100% open source on the driver or the
application libraries.
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From: Dean Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Salve Mark!
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007, Heilpern, Mark wrote:
Watching things like tv's MythBusters defeat fingerprint sensors is
interesting and entertaining, but when you know they're using several
year old, out-dated technology for the sensors they evaluate, you might
suspect that there's more
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