[Ubuntu-be] Fingerprint authentication

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Op zondag 19-08-2007 om 09:57 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Amedee Van
Gasse:
> Op zondag 19-08-2007 om 01:53 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Koen
> Thomeer:
> > It's like Alexandre Ficelle said: swiping your finger on a fingerprint
> > reader.
> > 
> > I want to know if it works and if it's reliable.
> 
> I have worked for 7 years at a company that makes access control
> solutions (with badges or tags).
> Sometimes customers asked for fingerprint readers, and the company has
> them in the product catalogue, but only because of customer demand - not
> because it is a reliable solution. You can only use them in office
> environments, not in production environments. Even in relatively clean
> environments, the reliability is somewhere between 95-99%. What does
> that mean? In a large company of 1000 people, you'll have to fire 10 to
> 50 people because their fingerprints "don't work". What if one of them
> happens to be someone of upper management...
> 
> Imho fingerprint authentication is only useful as a secondary
> verification, in combination with something else like a pin code. And
> read this month's C't to know how you can fool fingerprint scanners.
> 
> To conclude: fingerprint identification does _not_ work as in CSI.
> Forget it, that is just television. In Real Life it is much harder.
> 

I forgot: what if you hurt your finger and it is in a bandage? You will
need a secondary login mechanism for those cases!

-- 
Amedee Van Gasse <amedee at amedee.be>
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