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Home Secretary Requests Fingerprint-Activated iPods

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the losing-battles-to-fight dept.

John Reid, Home Secretary, has called upon tech manufacturers to improve the security on their gadgets to help with his recent push to frustrate criminals. Inviting Apple, Sony, and several others to his crime fighting summit Reid hopes to attack the rising robbery numbers in the most recent Home Office figures.

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  1. Re:Useless by geek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wipe the flash. Force a reload on the firmware etc etc etc etc. You can not secure a device when the theif has physical access to it. Anyone that has worked with ATM's knows this.

  2. Re:What a fantastic idea by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Informative

    More than that, didn't anybody see MythBusters? Fingerprint readers are nearly worthless as a security mechanism. They are notoriously easy to fool.

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  3. Re:Useless by Retric · · Score: 3, Informative

    An encrypted filesystem does not help when it's the device and not the data that people want.