http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sat, 26 May 2012 22:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/comment-page-1/#comment-46205 Gary McGath Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:33:50 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/#comment-46205 <p>In many cases, fixity is a liability. You can have a different password for each service you deal with, but you can't have more than ten different fingerprints, even if you have a free choice of which finger to give them. The data representation of any biometric can be stolen by someone who can persuade or trick you into giving it to his reader, if that reader has been modified to save what it reads; and once stolen, a biometric can't easily be revoked.</p> In many cases, fixity is a liability. You can have a different password for each service you deal with, but you can’t have more than ten different fingerprints, even if you have a free choice of which finger to give them. The data representation of any biometric can be stolen by someone who can persuade or trick you into giving it to his reader, if that reader has been modified to save what it reads; and once stolen, a biometric can’t easily be revoked.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/comment-page-1/#comment-39068 Gary McGath Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:33:50 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/#comment-39068 <p>In many cases, fixity is a liability. You can have a different password for each service you deal with, but you can't have more than ten different fingerprints, even if you have a free choice of which finger to give them. The data representation of any biometric can be stolen by someone who can persuade or trick you into giving it to his reader, if that reader has been modified to save what it reads; and once stolen, a biometric can't easily be revoked.</p> In many cases, fixity is a liability. You can have a different password for each service you deal with, but you can’t have more than ten different fingerprints, even if you have a free choice of which finger to give them. The data representation of any biometric can be stolen by someone who can persuade or trick you into giving it to his reader, if that reader has been modified to save what it reads; and once stolen, a biometric can’t easily be revoked.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/comment-page-1/#comment-46204 Jim Harper Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:05:45 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/#comment-46204 <p>Indeed. <a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/55253/Mythbusters_Fingerprint_Security.html" rel="nofollow">Here it is.</a></p> Indeed. Here it is.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/comment-page-1/#comment-39067 Jim Harper Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:05:45 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/#comment-39067 <p>Indeed. <a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/55253/Mythbusters_Fingerprint_Security.html" rel="nofollow">Here it is.</a></p> Indeed. Here it is.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/comment-page-1/#comment-46203 andyinsdca Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:14:55 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/#comment-46203 <p>Fingerprints are all too easy to forge. Mythbusters did an episode where they "copied" a fingerprint and used the copy to open a fingerprint protected door.</p> Fingerprints are all too easy to forge. Mythbusters did an episode where they “copied” a fingerprint and used the copy to open a fingerprint protected door.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/comment-page-1/#comment-39066 andyinsdca Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:14:55 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/08/fingerprints-could-become-the-next-social-security-number/#comment-39066 <p>Fingerprints are all too easy to forge. Mythbusters did an episode where they "copied" a fingerprint and used the copy to open a fingerprint protected door.</p> Fingerprints are all too easy to forge. Mythbusters did an episode where they “copied” a fingerprint and used the copy to open a fingerprint protected door.

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