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Re: biometrics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jan 23 17:46:01 2002
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:44:03 -0800
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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
At 12:11 PM -0800 1/23/02, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Biometrics are perhaps useful for things like ATM machines and similar
>situations where the system demanding authentication is composed
>entirely of trusted hardware under the complete physical control of
>the entities demanding the authentication.
I must admit that I worry about the ATMs in places like bars. These
machines do not seem to have a lot of physical protection.
Cheers - Bill
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