Posted on 07/03/2006 2:53:37 PM PDT by APRPEH
Identity theft has become a billion dollar global problem. Now however, there is a new strategy based on a very old way of accurately identifying someone.
Forget pictures, forget badges, even passwords; all you need is literally, at your fingertips.
The device from Digital Defense can hold all your personal information, and protects it using your fingerprint.
For example, your credit card company decides to utilize the new technology. Therefore, the next time you make a purchase, you would have to place your finger onto the card reader.
A green light means a go; your purchase will go through.
If someone else tries to do it, a no go, which makes signing up for new credit cards more intense, and therefore difficult for identity thieves.
"Instead of mailing the card to you, you would most likely need to go to the merchant or the issuer of the card, first of all, for identity validation, to make sure that you are you," explains Richard Ouaknine of the Digital Defense Group. "The second process is to enroll your fingerprints directly to the card."
The card is about the size of three regular cards stacked together. It would require a backup in case you lose it.
Also, the reader is configured to measure electrical properties in your body, so only your live finger can activate it.
okay, so lets not "break off" into talk about cutting fingers off to fool the device...
Credit card fingerprint database turned over to feds without a warrant.
They caught me for murder because of my credit card, this is un constitutional. /S
Something must be done about identity theft. Simple text data like date of birth, mother's maiden name, etc are simply too easy to duplicate.Something should connect the physical person to the transaction. Public key encryption is also a possibility to be considered.
And then there is the perrenial question about identification of voters . . .
What with North Korean counterfeiting, it would seem that this might become the only way to keep our economy above water. Currency can only be so difficult to counterfeit, and nothing prevents a government from accomplishing it if it is determined enough.
Biometrics are used for classified material. Sounds like a promising approach.
they are making this WAY more complicated than it needs to be. your print should be on file at the BANK not on the card.
when it sends the card number and charge into the bank, it sends your print scan too... no need for bulky cards with backups etc. that's just a money scam.
I beg to disagree. Any personal data held by a third party is insecure, because the thief can always find an employee who will sell them the data. That's how most identity theft happens in the first place.
Anything I give the bank I want protected by one-way encryption using open source technology certified by an independent professional body. And if the bank is Citibank, I want the manager's firstborn child as my hostage.
[PDF] Impact of Artificial "Gummy" Fingers on Fingerprint Systems
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"Gummy Fingers" Fool Fingerprint Readers
| A Japanese amateur scientist fools fingerprint recognition devices by molding a "gummy" replica of a human finger from the popular candy. www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,13730,00.asp - 87k - |
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This hacker's got the gummy touch | CNET News.com
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totse.com | Impact of Artificial "Gummy" Fingers on Fingerprint ...
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The Atlantic | September 2002 | Homeland Insecurity | Mann
| Gummi Fingers. Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at biometric fingerprint devices. These are security systems that ... www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann_c.htm - |
Citations: Impact of Artificial Gummy Fingers on Fingerprint ...
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Detectors licked by gummy fingers : Nature
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[PPT] The Biometric Dilemma
| File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML Option: gelatin (“gummy fingers” used by Matsumoto); Option: silicone (used by Willis; Thalheim) ... You can place the “gummy finger” over your real finger. ... www.smat.us/crypto/docs/bh-us-02-smith-biometric.ppt - (Sorry, some of those require a subscription to access.) |
Well, the Democrats say that anything to do with voters proving their identity is intimidating and amounts to harassment.
wow.. thanks for those links
i see the idea as a way to make money for the card makers and not so much as a safeguard for customers.
You are missing the real point here. Your fingerprint is kept on the card, not on a bank's computer. The reader compares your live fingerprint with the "picture" stored on the credit card. The reader does not access some huge database kept by a bank or the government.
the way i see it... all the bank needs is a print associated with a number.
you are verifying it's your number by print verification and readers only read live fingers.
with the print stored on the card... the card can be stolen and REPROGRAMMED with the crooks print on it.
no thanks. and no i don't trust banks either but there's less chance of it happening in the bank than in the wild.
but that's just me.
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