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Fingerprint Recognition with Linux & IBM's T42

Posted by timothy on from the nobody-said-*which*-finger dept.

Michael R. Crusoe writes "UPEK, provider of popular fingerprint sensors to IBM's T42 notebooks and others, has announced that they will be providing a BioAPI compliant library to perform biometric authentication under GNU/Linux. Will Linux be the first operating system to have integrated biometric user authentication 'out of the box'?"

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  1. This is great news because... by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, I am really looking forward to giving Linux the finger...er wait..

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  2. Re:Ahem, PAM by /ASCII · · Score: 2, Funny

    Keeping the password file in a non-standard location like /hack/me/now is simple security through obscurity. Kind of like using ROT13 to encrypt your DRMed ebooks. This is a very common security technology used through out the IT industry. It's just a question of time before Bezos patents it!

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  3. Re:To answer the question: No. by stevey · · Score: 2, Funny
    But this is OPEN SORES!

    The combination of open sores and a finger scanner doesn't sound too hygenic to me.

    I guess if I had a fingerprint scanner I'd want to clean it regularly if people are going to start trying to use it randomly...

  4. re: "the day you nicked you finger doing DIY" by TheLoneGundam · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You know, you've gotta watch it with those circular saws," Tom said off-handedly.