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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. Brilliant! by grape+jelly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...because nobody would ever find the owner's fingerprint in their home!

    This is yet another case of legislation coming up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

  2. Re:Why? by lawpoop · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Basically it's to gear up the public to be accepting to fingerprint scanning as part of everyday life. You don't need a fingerprint scanner on an iPod. Same reason they're putting RFID chips in credit cards and passports -- to get people so used to them, there will be no problem when they want to implant them in our hand.

    Remember, the Total Information Awareness project is alive and thumpin' !

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  3. Re:Useless by Marillion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The iPod video has a security feature. You can set a PIN code on it to lock it. Re-enter the PIN to unlock. If for some reason you "forget" the pin code, docking the iPod to its "Home" computer will unlock it the iPod.

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