Hardware That Recognizes You

Amit Upadhyay writes "Gizmodo is reporting about extra funding for smart guns at NJIT. Few have qualms about it, mostly on the line of: would optical sensor for finger prints work when the hand is soaked with blood? Would you get time to enter the override code in an emergency? But if we remove speculative emergency situations, the technology seems to be interesting. While checking out Fingkey Hamster what struck me was, this is one passkey I will not mind publishing on my webpage, and it can't be cracked, unless hardware tampering takes place. Kind of thing that you can put in all the car ignitions and lockers where password entry using keyboard can become too obtrusive."

Comments

Dear Liberals:

[Anonymous Coward]

Please drop your irrational fear of pieces of metal. If you don't, we may have to live with Christian conservatives in high office forever.

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[Anonymous Coward]

(7700+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FReeBSD To foster a gay and

Re:Over-engineered solution to a non-problem

[Cyn]

It may reduce the number of guns held by isolated idiots without criminal connections, but they're not a huge danger anyway.

Sure they are - they voted. For Bush.