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Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 25, 2013 @05:50AM from the no-zombie-shopping dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A small U.S. university has come up with a novel solution to reduce the possibility of using a dead person's hand to get past a fingerprint scanner through the use of hemoglobin detection. The device quickly checks the fingerprint and hemoglobin 'non-intrusively' to verify the identity and whether the individual is alive. This field of research is called Biocryptology and seeks to ensure that biometric security devices can't be easily bypassed."

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IANAL by masao · 2013-02-25 05:57 · Score: 5, Funny

How will lawyers use it?
Biometric Authentication is a bad idea. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-25 05:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

Here's a good reason why: What happens when someone manages to steal your password? You change it. What happens when someone managed to recreate your DNA or other biological identifier used for authentication? Good luck getting new DNA or fingerprints.
Re:Not checking pulse by CanHasDIY · 2013-02-25 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny

...people... like Dick Cheney... are alive...
That seems debatable.

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