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Biometric Insecurity
I was reading to a number of my subscribed feeds when I came across this article ‘Study: Workers often jot down passwords’. A well written and informative article in all but while reading the third line I read the following including biometrics. I just don’t get it. As far as I know biometrics is still a method with a error rate between the 60% and 99.9%. 1
99.9 % that sound pretty high for this kind of score you need a retina scanner. But this still means an error in every 1000 persons scanned with every 3 Boeing 747s departing from an airport they leave leave 1 passenger behind. Or worse that other way around they take a terrorist aboard. And this is like a said with the better equipment when it comes to a secure USB vault with fingerprint scan these can often be fooled by fake fingerprints or even with putting your fingers in gelatin. 2
Getting back to the article mentioned above. Passwords and workers jotting them down is indeed undermining the, most of the time, costly security implemented at the work place. But with still the relative large error rate I’ll rather bet my security on more secure and proven technologies like two factor authentication like RSA supplies them.
References: 1 Biometrics – Wikipedia 2 www.id-nee.nl(Dutch)
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Posted on October 19th, 2006
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biometrics,
password
and security