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."

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Re:The problem with biometrics

[paganizer]

As you are apparently british, and therefore insane, you have no platform to stand on.

as a member of a gun loving culture, my viewpoint is perhaps a little more clear.

Families who have guns around, like for instance 95% of rural U.S. Families, aren't the ones who have kids shooting themselves; the kids KNOW what a real gun is, and only those which are mentally deficient are going to injure themselves.

Families who shouldn't have guns around, for instance Urban liberals who don't even tell their kids they have a gun hidden, let alone take the little kids out to the range to show them how loud & dangerous they are, shouldn't be surprised when little johnny stumbles across the "toy" hidden on the top shelf of the closet and blows his sisters brains out.

As for me, I think anyone who wants to give the state the sole option on protecting them and their families from violence should have that right; it improves the overall survival chances for the rest of us.
BTW, biometrics for weapons will not be a problem for criminals, just law abiding citizens; won't have a weapon that has it (except possibly to hack it).