[196244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: replacing compromised biometric authenticators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Kirch)
Sat Oct 14 07:08:01 2017
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From: Andrew Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:10:36 -0400
To: Ken Chase <math@sizone.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Since I'm not squeamish about such things, I do have tin snips and will
happily assist in revocation of compromised biometric authentication
factors.
Andrew
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Ken Chase <math@sizone.org> wrote:
> (forking the thread here..)
>
> Biometrics are still the new hotness out in North America. Cologix whom I
> deal
> with in Canada has a dozen and a half odd POPs in canada/usa and I think
> has
> fingerprinting at all sites.
>
> If the current best operating practice is to avoid biometrics, why are they
> still in use out here? Has anyone gotten the message? Is anyone in North
> America
> ripping them out yet?
>
> Other factors include your country's privacy regulations for storing
> irreplaceable personal information, the burden of which might not be worth
> the security 'benefit'.
>
> /kc
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0400, William Herrin said:
> >On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, J??rg Kost <jk@ip-clear.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Do you guys still at least have biometric access control devices at
> your
> >> Level3 dc? They even removed this things at our site, because there
> is no
> >> budget for a successor for the failing unit. And to be consistent,
> they
> >> event want to remove all biometric access devices at least across
> Germany.
> >>
> >
> >Hi J??rg,
> >
> >IMO, biometric was a gimmick in the first place and a bad idea when
> >carefully considered. All authenticators can be compromised. Hence, all
> >authenticators must be replaceable following a compromise. If one of
> your
> >DCs' palm vein databases is lost, what's your plan for replacing that
> hand?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Bill Herrin
> >
> >
> >--
> >William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
> >Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
>
> --
> Ken Chase - math@sizone.org Guelph Canada
>
