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Aladdin Takes Authentication To Heart

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keeping-you-alive-to-open-the-vault dept.

anadgouda writes "Aladdin Technologies is using cardio patterns to confirm identities. This can be eventually used for authentication and they say it offers better performance, cost and reliability. From the article: 'The technology reads intrinsic human electro-biometric dynamic signals acquired by touching a small conductive surface. The signature, called the BioDynamic Signature, is based on electronic signals produced from the human body, including the heart.'"

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  1. Cardiac arrhythmia? by metamatic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how it deals with cardiac arrhythmia?

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  2. Not feasible by webmistressrachel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are some amusing points above about what happens when these rythms change - and anybody who's played with their hifi wires without following the instructions and switching it all off will know that the tones and volumes we produce change a lot from day to day. How can they seriously say they are DOING this now, when it doesn't seem at all feasible? Bring me proof.

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  3. Re:Excellent by HTL2001 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this sounds like an electrical sensor, so I think it would be easy to replicate. Just like the GGGP (or something like that) said you can use a modified microphone to record it, you could probably use a speaker setup (minus speaker of course) to play it back

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  4. If this new tech is as picky as fingerprinting... by WebCowboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...then I hope I don't have to see it for a loooong time.

    I went to a swimming pool that "upgraded" their coin-operated lockers--they went from keys to electonic locks with keypad-entered passcodes a number of years ago, then decided that STILL wasn't snazzy enough and put in fingerprint readers.

    I hope they canned the pointy-haired idiot who came up with THAT gem of an idea.

    Here is the problem: It is easy enough to get into your locker before you enter the pool. After you go out and swim for a bit your fingers get all wet and wrinkly and your fingerprints actually shrink a bit...it seems that the software is too picky/stupid to compensate, and as a result people have to go and dry their hands under the hot air dryers for several minutes just to open their locks. A lot of people would just give up and get an attendant to open the locker--which would require you to give a sufficiently detailed description of the contents before they'd open it.

    Here is the other real excellent part of this deal: only one fingerprint would open a locker--even from the same person, so if I used my right index finger to open it to start with, I couldn't use my left index finger..nor could I add another person's finger so you could share a locker--either you spend extra to get separate lockers or one person always has to go back to re-open it.

    If you think using a severed finger even with these readers you're kidding yourself--I'm sure that it'd be too cold and the lack of circulation would alter the fingerprint too much. It sounds to me like this heart rythm thing is just a solution looking for a problem.

    Here is the ultimate irony: these state-of-the-art biometric-access lockers were equipped to accept COINS ONLY--no debit and no credit cards, and not even paper cash--and they cost up to $6 for daily rental.

    Sometimes, technology is just stupid.