fingerprints
RSS fingerprintsDevil's Advocate: Whose life is it anyway?
Comment He can put other people's fingerprints on them and they are good enough to fool current testing systems. But why does he think anyone would? The very first article in this series was about the e-envoy's idea to have each... [11 Jun 2002]
Fingerprint recognition - PINs can make it foolproof
News On 16 May 2002, it was reported that a Japanese cryptographer, Tsutomu Matsumoto, had tricked fingerprint recognition devices with false fingerprints created by using widely available and cheap materials and a digital... [22 May 2002]
UK passports to go biometric
News Passports will have a microchip embedded into them which contains unique data relating to fingerprints or iris recognition. Biometric data is likely to appear on all UK passports within the following four years, the UK... [21 Feb 2002]
Olympic chiefs fight crime with high-tech tricks
News It can also match the criminal's fingerprints across centralised system in the whole of US. The police in Salt Lake City are helping the Winter Olympic officials to fight crime with facial recognition and finger print... [14 Feb 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: A citizens' database, JD Edwards and corporate PDA support
Comment Larry wouldn't need to give away his database because we could all carry smartcards with our fingerprints embedded into them. A simple database that allows individuals to be identified in terms of their social security... [10 Dec 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: A citizens' database, JD Edwards and corporate PDA support
Comment Larry wouldn't need to give away his database because we could all carry smartcards with our fingerprints embedded into them. A simple database that allows individuals to be identified in terms of their social security... [09 Dec 2001]
And now, a palm-reading mouse...
News German electronics giant Siemens has developed a mouse that can read fingerprints. The company's new ID Mouse incorporates sophisticated security technology to allow users to log on to PCs and use web-based environments... [30 Nov 2001]
Passports replaced by iris scanning in Amsterdam
News The iris is the most most distinguishable feature of any individual - even more so than fingerprints. Schiphol airport in Amsterdam is trialling a new system to scan frequent flyers' irises and record their personal... [30 Oct 2001]
Fujitsu puts finger in sensor market pie
News Japanese technology giant Fujitsu announced it will start selling fingerprint readers for mobile handsets. The sensors, made out of silicon, are to work as a biometric authentication device to secure user access and transactions from... [01 Aug 2001]
Security is in the eye of the beholder
News Compared to this, other biometrics - such as facial recognition, fingerprints, vein and voice recognition - all had higher false match rates. The study discovered that iris recognition registered a false match rate of... [22 May 2001]
'Big Brother' police system falls foul of privacy lobby
News Criminal intelligence on offenders, including working methods, fingerprints, known associates, aliases and the vehicles used will all be available. According to the Scottish Campaign for Freedom of Information (SCFI),... [29 Mar 2001]
Watch out - the invisible virus is on its way
News Viruses such as the Kournikova or Love Letter can be recognised by their so-called 'fingerprints' or code patterns, but the metamorphic virus will alter its code each time it is forwarded," he said. The metamorphic virus... [21 Feb 2001]
Biometrics: When will the industry come to its senses?
Comment Biometrics, such as fingerprints, can also function as an authentication part of PKI to protect your private keys when sending an encrypted message. Frost and Sullivan discovered in a recently published study titled 'The... [30 Nov 2000]
Identity theft: security threats get personal
Comment Or maybe you are buying groceries but another person, three thousand miles away, has already used the biometric information generated by your fingerprints. Imagine trying to withdraw money from your bank account but the... [13 Nov 2000]
Hands off, Mr Sommer
Comment Ron Sommer, Deutsche Telekom's CEO, has his fingerprints all over the crime scene. It was a brave - some said foolhardy - decision to go to the markets in the midst of spring's stock slide, but T-Online came out the... [21 Sep 2000]
