On or about Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:40:57AM +0000, KuroiNeko typed: > Also, marketoids of biometric systems tend not to tell you one really >important thing: you should not assume that a part of human body used for >auth will always remain and always be the same. A person can loose a finger >in a disaster, ditto an eye. Skin tends to change fast, especially >fingertips, voices change, even adults' voices. Also consider the legal implications if someone with no eyes wants to use your service and you insist on retina scans... > Provided that biometric scanners and recognition software still cost a >fortune, and they still have to be backed up by traditional auth methods, >real advantage of biometrics is still questionable. A biometric datum is like a password which you can never change, but which you can forget; it's hard but not by any means impossible to duplicate one... Roger
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