On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:23:48 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fingerprint is basically gimmickry. Easily fooled and you can't issue > people with new fingerprints, or in the unpleasant case - new fingers. Ah, but if the Sarbanes-Oxley auditors will accept a fingerprint scanner as a secure login, you won't have to change your password so often that you leave it written down on a post-it and stuck to your screen, so fingerprint scanners might actually be more secure :-).
