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New IBM Thinkpad includes biometrics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Stiglic)
Tue Oct 19 15:28:17 2004
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From: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:10:06 -0400
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/05/biometric_thinkpad_t42/
I wonder how well it can counter the attacks discussed by researchers in the
last few years. Like reactivating a fingerprint authentication by breathing
on the sensor's surface containing residue fat traces of the finger, or
placing a bag of water. Or the jelly finger trick.
The biometric authentication might very well make the laptop less secure
than password-based authentication.
--Anton
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