JF's security (and other things) log

I just read an interesting article on so-called password fatigue: http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39288051,00.htm


Short exerpt:

According to Comet, the rise in sales of PCs with biometrics scanners comes as a result of Britons seeking better security while becoming increasingly fed up with remembering numerous passwords.

To me this seems a bad way to go. Time and time again fingerprint biometrics (and most other biometrics for that matter) have been proven to be faulty and easily duplicated. Why would you trust your computer security to a password that's lying around all over the house, your car, your work, your supermarket and wherever you go? Not too long ago, a dutch supermarket tried using fingerprints to pay for groceries. They got hacked of course, just like a german supermarket in 2007. Since 1990 people have been warning about using fingerprints as a new type of password and yet noone has any clue about how insecure they really are. A few examples on this are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo (english)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8D4wWYgsc (german)

And there are so many many more manuals and howtos on how to duplicate and retrieve fingerprints it's just amazing.