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Mouse Scans Palms to Verify ID

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the logs-you-in-and-reads-your-future dept.

p00kiethebear writes "'Fujitsu is eyeing a variation on the centuries-old art of palmistry as the latest biometric weapon against unauthorized access to computer systems and facilities. The company has developed a computer mouse that will scan the palm of the user and deliver not a look into the future but verify the identity of that person.', With a .5% error rate I wouldn't be surprised if we saw this in offices within the next few years."

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  1. Duties of an electrical engineer include design of by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Duties of an electrical engineer include design of substation equipment, protective relay equipment, communication equipment, computer programming, and supervising. All the designs must consider public safety, equipment capabilities, maintenance ability, dependability, and security within cost constraints.

  2. Re:Thist just in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL +5 FUNNY mod parent up!!! OMG ROFL