Op zondag 19-08-2007 om 01:53 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Koen Thomeer: > It's like Alexandre Ficelle said: swiping your finger on a fingerprint > reader. > > I want to know if it works and if it's reliable.
I have worked for 7 years at a company that makes access control solutions (with badges or tags). Sometimes customers asked for fingerprint readers, and the company has them in the product catalogue, but only because of customer demand - not because it is a reliable solution. You can only use them in office environments, not in production environments. Even in relatively clean environments, the reliability is somewhere between 95-99%. What does that mean? In a large company of 1000 people, you'll have to fire 10 to 50 people because their fingerprints "don't work". What if one of them happens to be someone of upper management... Imho fingerprint authentication is only useful as a secondary verification, in combination with something else like a pin code. And read this month's C't to know how you can fool fingerprint scanners. To conclude: fingerprint identification does _not_ work as in CSI. Forget it, that is just television. In Real Life it is much harder. -- Amedee Van Gasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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