if I'm going to hold you up at the ATM machine, I can now just slam your face against the glass and let it scan you. No more extorting PIN codes. This will have a zero result on security, with the exception that ATM fraud will decrease. Though, who's to say you couldn't create a fake iris which you could encode at will, just like they have for the magnetic strips on credit cards? Its just a computer on the other side...that's never stopped anyone before.
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if I'm going to hold you up at the ATM machine, I can now just slam your face against the glass and let it scan you. No more extorting PIN codes. This will have a zero result on security, with the exception that ATM fraud will decrease. Though, who's to say you couldn't create a fake iris which you could encode at will, just like they have for the magnetic strips on credit cards? Its just a computer on the other side...that's never stopped anyone before.