Member News: Limqareb -- Microsoft Fingerprint recognition Keyboard Mouse

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This story belongs to Limqareb (he forwarded it to me requesting its posting)

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=035

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/features/fingerprint.mspx

basically microsofts new rodents/keybs support fingerprint recognition as a means of passwording your system and website you visit;

the scanner reads your fingerprint and grants access to your computer/fave web pages given that your fingerprint is correct;

this technology has been around for a while but it appears that MS may have finally got rid of the bugs in recognition /matching

they are MS preherials so expect them to be of high quality (about the only thing that MS make that is :()
 
name='XMS' said:
The only downside is that fingerprint recognition is less secure than a good password.
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u said it @ least 14 random charachters :D no less ; and comprised of non A-Z/0-9 keys (eg ~#';[) and then encrypt that mutha
 
name='Joe' said:
u said it @ least 14 random charachters :D no less ; and comprised of non A-Z/0-9 keys (eg ~#';[) and then encrypt that mutha
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Yup.

Using fingerprint recognition is like leaving your password on thousands of post-it notes all around your desk to the expereinced hacker.

I saw an article not so long ago on how patheticaly easy it was to replicate a successful authentication using a finger print lifted off the very device it was used to authenticate with.
 
XMS said:
Yup.

Using fingerprint recognition is like leaving your password on thousands of post-it notes all around your desk to the expereinced hacker.

I saw an article not so long ago on how patheticaly easy it was to replicate a successful authentication using a finger print lifted off the very device it was used to authenticate with.
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Yeah that's the exact reason I won't get one of those things...they'll never be secure enough :o
 
name='kempez815' said:
Yeah that's the exact reason I won't get one of those things...they'll never be secure enough :o
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Yup...also, once someone gets your fringerprint, there is no way for you to give yourself a 'new' fingerprint, so you're pretty stuffed.

I'm sure Microsoft will sell plenty of these gimmick's to the idiotic general public tho ;)
 
saw the same exact thing but it fits in the 3 1/2 bay and it has 2 usb, firewire and 2 audio jacks. it think it was from gigabyte and it was called "I-Touch"
 
the thing is....your fingerprint scanner could break, firstly leaving you without logins and secndly at a major security debt.

unless u lost ur last brian cell...ur memory cant "break" :)
 
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