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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: When will they ever learn...
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:41:52 -0700
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On 11/25/2024 3:29 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> How many OTHER biometric signatures can you present?  E.g., if
>> "left thumbprint" is compromised (to access system X), then you move
>> on to "right thumbprint" (for example).
> 
> I seem to remember another option which was popular among office staff
> when photocopiers were first introduced.  It resulted in a number of
> broken glass injuries that were awkward to explain.   :-)

Yeah, I think the "scanner" required for such is likely too large to
be an effective sensor in any product (and,, how "distinctive" is
that feature, anyway??).  Imagine it on your PHONE... or, as a door key!

OTOH, we already see "fingerprint" scanning to be heading towards
ubiquitous.

Bank tellers use a palm scanner.  (what happens when your SECOND palm
is compromised??)

Retinal scanners (grow a third eye??)

At the very least, they need to start using MFA; it currently seems
like the biometric is used to identify AND authenticate.

[An organization I work with has a fingerprint-based time-clock...
to prevent other employees from "punching in" for each other.
Really?  You've got ~30 employees; you can't NOTICE who was late to
work (or absent) on a particular day???]

So far (?), electronic signature tablets appear to just capture
the signature (electronic ink).  When will they start looking at
motion dynamics?