silicon.com— Watch where you leave your fingerprints - soon they could be the target of thieves looking to break into your bank account.
Jul 20, 2006View in Crawl 4
You guys are all so critical, but anything is an ID improvement over a signature or possession of a name. birthday and SS#. Maybe a low end fingerprint scan isn't appropriate for DOD or corp security but for the consumer level billion$ would be saved. Any clown can now walk into a store with a stolen card and buy. It's way beyond the average thief to spoof fingerprints like they do on Alias. I've had a Citibank card with my photo on it for 16 years. Why isn't this standard? Clerks flip my card to look at the sillyass signature rather than at the photo I have to point out to them.We have to get real to the fact we have a identity based culture, rather than letting the commercial interests just spread the pain to all of us in the form of higher prices and rates rather than them actually doing something new.
The problem is not biometrics opening holes. The problem is too many people/companies/banks rely on ONE form of security and that's about it. The only way to make things truly secure is to have multiple forms of security.Retinal scans can't be duplicated like fingerprints - but don't just count on retinal scans. Try the use of retinal scans in conjunction with voice pattern recognition and rotating secure IDs for instance.Multi-layered, multi-faceted security systems are the only secure systems. And even then there's still holes. But you can't be afraid to move forward because of 'what might happen' or we'll all just be stuck in 2006, and what a boring reality that would be.
the best biometric sensors available are not looking for heat or a pulse. Believe it or not, there is an underlying fingerprint as well that some are able to read. Also, there are other factors that can be detected, those which are not as easily spoofed by something like gelatin.and by the way, funny enough, gelatin is not the best thing to spoof the s**tty sensors.
keybsnbitsJul 21, 2006
Reminds me of the article about spoofing a biometric fingerprint scanner with Gummi Bears.<a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/</a>
teaboyJul 21, 2006
I hate it when people put a space before the article title so that it juts out slightly on the RSS feed. Digg, please trim the titles!!
gellfexJul 21, 2006
You guys are all so critical, but anything is an ID improvement over a signature or possession of a name. birthday and SS#. Maybe a low end fingerprint scan isn't appropriate for DOD or corp security but for the consumer level billion$ would be saved. Any clown can now walk into a store with a stolen card and buy. It's way beyond the average thief to spoof fingerprints like they do on Alias. I've had a Citibank card with my photo on it for 16 years. Why isn't this standard? Clerks flip my card to look at the sillyass signature rather than at the photo I have to point out to them.We have to get real to the fact we have a identity based culture, rather than letting the commercial interests just spread the pain to all of us in the form of higher prices and rates rather than them actually doing something new.
scardsJul 21, 2006
The problem is not biometrics opening holes. The problem is too many people/companies/banks rely on ONE form of security and that's about it. The only way to make things truly secure is to have multiple forms of security.Retinal scans can't be duplicated like fingerprints - but don't just count on retinal scans. Try the use of retinal scans in conjunction with voice pattern recognition and rotating secure IDs for instance.Multi-layered, multi-faceted security systems are the only secure systems. And even then there's still holes. But you can't be afraid to move forward because of 'what might happen' or we'll all just be stuck in 2006, and what a boring reality that would be.
sukinoJul 21, 2006
All your biometrics are belong to us.-- I know it's a study.
agentzappoJul 22, 2006
the best biometric sensors available are not looking for heat or a pulse. Believe it or not, there is an underlying fingerprint as well that some are able to read. Also, there are other factors that can be detected, those which are not as easily spoofed by something like gelatin.and by the way, funny enough, gelatin is not the best thing to spoof the s**tty sensors.
benjhollaJul 22, 2006
Reminds me of the movie gattica. Not sure if anyone already said that I only read about half the comments, so sorry if someone already mentioned it.
nerdyninjaJul 22, 2006
Dude, are you a communist?