OT: Biometric ID

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:04:18 +0200
Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

> Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkelman at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I personally do not trust the database, its holders, and advise
> > anyone who knows me (including students in my courses) to never go
> > into it.
> 
> I wouldn't trust it either, but let's assume for a second that we do,
> and that we see benefits in biometric identification. Does it strike
> anyone else as rather weird that fingerprints have been chosen as the
> basis of it over all the other possible biometrics?
> 
> We leave fingerprints on just about everything we touch everywhere we
> go, and they are relatively easy to lift and forge. This seems to me
> bad for both privacy and security. Why wouldn't, say, iris scans be
> preferable?
> 

Just speaking for myself, I don't want random lights shining directly
into my eyes. If one of them short circuits and goes overpower, I could
get injured.

SteveT

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