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Body Check
Biometric Access Protection Devices and their Programs Put to the Test

Memorizing passwords is out. Laying your finger on a sensor or peering into a webcam can suffice to gain you immediate access to a system. There is the danger, however, that this new ease might be bought at the expense of security. How well do biometric access controls prevent unauthorized access? We have tested eleven products for you. [c't]

More bad news for the Biometrics industry. These test blow away the smoke that the industry has been delivering over the past several years. The post 9/11 world has gotten hyped on this stuff in a marketing frenzy. Last year I was attacked by one of the senior managers of a Facial Recognition company when I questioned it's usability and worth. I guess the chicken has come home to roost...mj
8:12:51 AM    


Dubya calls for US Gestapo
US President George Dubya Bush took to the airwaves last night in an appeal for the establishment of a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, to keep us all safe and snug in our beds.

"Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us," the President warned, and added that "this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently."

Acting differently means creating a vast federal bureaucratic complex to gather and sift data relevant to US persons collected by myriad federal and state government and law enforcement offices, and commercial bodies such as banks, insurers and direct marketing firms. [Register]

It's a good article that points out the problems and issues with what's going on here. GW is putting the Democrats in a position of no refuse...not with the fall elections dead ahead. The only question is, have we really thought through the potential impact of this change? Not likely, but that's politics as usual...mj
7:30:07 AM    


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