Op zondag 19-08-2007 om 09:57 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Amedee Van Gasse: > 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. >
I forgot: what if you hurt your finger and it is in a bandage? You will need a secondary login mechanism for those cases! -- Amedee Van Gasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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