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RSA: From Apple Keys to Biometric Security Devices (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the plastics-is-the-future-young-man dept.

30 years ago there was a company that made molded plastic push buttons and keyboard keys, including those used on early Apples, Ataris, and Texas Instrument computers. Said company, Key Source International, has morphed over the years into a supplier of secure keyboards and other biometric security devices. Some of what they make is trivial, and some is interesting. In this video (and the accompanying transcript), made by Tim Lord at the 2013 RSA conference, Key Source International marketing VP Philip Bruno tells us about the company and its products.

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  1. biometric non-security by fermion · · Score: 2
    The problem with biometric security is that it is not really more secure than a password. This is because I can change my password, but i can't change my biometrics. For most of us this is not a problem. Matching biometrics to a account for a random person is difficult. However, suppose someone wanted into my HP Computer which has a fingerprint detector. One they figured out how to match my fingerprint, that form of security is forever corrupted.

    Lets say that a website knows who I am by the way I type. A man in the middle attack can get those statistics, duplicate it, and I am forever compromised.

    I think biometric falls on the convenience side of the security issue, at least for now. I am not convinced that it could fall as easily as a dictionary attack for a password.

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  2. Re:What has happened to /. ? by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 2

    Hey, did you notice how every comment downrating this article has been modded to (-1) immediately? There's only one comment at (+2) and one comment at (+1). It's almost as if the down-moderations are being done by someone with editor-level powers or maybe even a higher-higher upper-up muckity-muck. Rob-limo-u-sine-O, is this your doing at feeling insulted and called out for being caught shilling? Look at the distribution of comment scores at 13h45 PST 2013-03-05:
    score . . . . . number of comments
    -1 . . . . . . . . . 16 comments
    0 . . . . . . . . . . 3 comments
    1 . . . . . . . . . . 2 comments
    2 . . . . . . . . . . 1 comment (haha, no one likes this article)
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    Have you ever seen such an amazing negative skewing of comment scores? Moi, je n'ai jamais pas vu quelque chose comme ci aqui (dang, where'd that come from?)