Re: Biometric
Fingerprint scanners are a big fail. You leave prints all OVER the place, and if you can lift a good copy of a print, you can clone, and gain access to what the lock is trying to keep you out of. A better solution would be retinal scans. I was looking into this a while ago, but at the cost of $30,000 a scanner it was a no-go. I'm sure they have come down in price since then, but the great thing about it is as far as I know, it can not be reproduced (the retina)--fooled maybe. The cool thing about it was it stored 200+ users for one device, and if your office had multiple "readers" they were able to talk to each other and be able to store 200+ different users on each device. --and I have been out of the retina scanning loop for a while. New model from Panasonic BM-ET330 does 1000 local users and cosing $2-3k. Ripping someone's eye from their socket would result in a failed read, however, if you got them drunk enough, or drugged them, i'm sure you would gain access.
For me, I use OTP's (One Time Password)
I type a random word or phrase, encrypt it, and take an excerpt from the encrypted garbage thats displayed. Unless its a "general" site, then I use a garbage password.
Paris because she add's "1" after "password" too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
