Quote:
|
Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Tchocky
Hmm, incorporating fingerprint readers (like on some USB sticks) would help credit security. Otherwise, I can't see much usefulness in these yet.
|
I'm sorry. I'm not giving my fingerprint to any bank for security.
-S |
If you were topurist to your country, you would. Else holiday is over before it began.
fingerprints have been demonstrated to be very unsafe in german test supermarkets were they had automatted cash desks. the machines were fooled by prints being taken off the sensor field with Scotch Tape, copied, grey-toned, scaled and printed on overhead/transparency film, and glueing them to the tester's fingertip.
After all, fingerprints are just a 2-dimensional picture.
And having fingerprint scanner all aropund, maybe in the future you will not only be robbed of your credit card, but will have your fingers being chopped of as well. Somewhere in Asia a car manufacturer has stopped to equip his cars with fingerprint detectors linked to the ignition: the number of cars being stolen while wiaitng in traffic on crossroads and drivers being chopped of their hands or finger, drastically increased. That was news I read maybe three years ago.