[F8] fingerprint scanner

[John Summerfield]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:23:48 +0000
> Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Fingerprint is basically gimmickry. Easily fooled and you can't issue
>> people with new fingerprints, or in the unpleasant case - new fingers.
> 
> Ah, but if the Sarbanes-Oxley auditors will accept a fingerprint
> scanner as a secure login, you won't have to change your password
> so often that you leave it written down on a post-it and stuck
> to your screen, so fingerprint scanners might actually be more
> secure :-).
> 
To defeat the "change your password" myth, google '"best practice" 
password security.' There's a paper I've turned up a couple of times, 
most recently in the past week, where a professor argues changing 
passwords regularly might have been a good idea 40 years ago, but not 
now. His argument seems good to me, and I've not changed my preferred 
password in over five years (and I've not disclosed it to anyone).





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