Lamar Owen wrote:
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:03:27 pm m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and Mythdemeanors' episode a few years ago.
I can beat that: I read, a month or so ago, how a bunch of elementary school kids discovered that wet Gummi Bears would hold a fingerprint, *and* (they didn't understand this) have more or less the same electrical conductivity....
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Two-factor security should be standard, really. Fingerprint plus ID card, or fingerprint plus keycode, etc. One factor being something you uniquely have, and the other being either something you have or something you know.
<snip> We (the Feds) are using PIV cards, which have passkeys, and, of course, the username. I prefer what I have from my employer: the RSA keyfobs. No trouble at all, *and* you need the username, keyfob and a pin.
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