'Laptop logins'

Conyngham from the windy city -

What ever happened to the move towards a fingerprint reader as standard on laptops? I don't even know if this option is available, whereas a while back it was the hot new topic. By now the glitches should have been ironed out and it seems to me to be a great idea.

Comment #1 Kings from parallel street -

I read that the system was so fraught with bugs and problems that most manufacturers abandoned it. Not sure if this is so, but I certainly don't see them on standard hardware anywhere.

Comment #2 Tara from Somewhere cold -

I agree, from what I read there were so many problems with this that I believe that this idea has been "scrapped". I could be wrong though, there might have been some kind of update regarding this that I'm not aware of.

Comment #3 Keter from the garage door -

The fingerprinting done now on a regular basis for tourists arriving at US airports proves that the technology is available in a usable form. Big question is whether it cost efficient to utilize this on mass-produced devices to give the feedback signal necessary to say unlock a laptop.

Comment #4 Kings from parallel street -

As a matter of interest, I have noticed with the airport fingerprint scanners, that they seem to malfunction a fair amount depending on the dryness of the skin pores. I've seen harassed immigration personnel struggling to get the readers to work on some travellers, and apparently this can occur where there is not enough natural moisture available on the skin give a decent image.

Comment #5 jnights from Watching my back -

There are newer ones that come with it built in and they are supposedly very good. I think it's a matter of 6 months or so and all laptops will have this and it will work very well.

Comment #6 Tracy Esau (116.71.35.170) -

This new form of fingerprinting technology is amazing.... it secures your data and the best part is that no one can access your data at any cost...

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Comment #7 Martin from Kansas -

That looks like some crapp laptop sales page that really has nothing to do with fingerprint technology.

Why is it secure? Why not scan someone's finger print and save the data. Then use that data to open the "secure" data?

Once the print is digitized its just a digital image that doesn't involve any bloody mess to manuipulate!

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