Re: technical question about fingerprint usbkey

"frozt" <frozt54@gmail.com> writes:
> i saw them fool those things with a melted gummy bear on techtv...

the issue can be security proportional to risk.

something like 30 percent of debit cards are reputed to have the
PINs written on them. part of this is the serious proliferation
of shared-secrets ... and the difficulty of people being forced
to remember scores of different shared secrets.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#secrets

some number of the fingerprint scenarios are targeted at the
pin/password market where there is significant, common practice for
people writing down their pin/password.

in this case the issue comes down what is simpler, easier for
a crook (having stolen a card)

1) to lift a pin written on the card and fraudulently enter
the pin

2) to lift a fingerprint possibly left on the card and fraudulently
enter the fingerprint.

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Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/