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Re: STE_pup

To: John Young <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: STE_pup
From: Lucky Green <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:28:30 -0800
Sender: [email protected]

At 11:39 AM 2/11/97 -0500, John Young wrote:
>  Oracle's new fingerprint checking device to assure bona fide
>  log-on privileges. Covers other such devices, quotes a maker:
>  "if criminals or hackers get through these, industry will
>  step up one more level."

Fingerprint readers tend to work regardless if the finger is attached to a
body or not. All that fingerprint readers will do is increase the damage to
those relying on ever increasing, but misguided, methods of authentication.
See the rise in "identity theft" since SSN's began to be used for
identification.

-- Lucky Green <mailto:[email protected]> PGP encrypted mail preferred

   "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and
    violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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