Sorry, this is the opposite of substantiation. I got my answer from
www.authentec.com
kgm
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[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Curt Sampson
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:46 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Jelly finger fools biometric sensor
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Kenneth G. Mages wrote:
> Substantiate that biometrics do/can not provide security. Remember
> that biometrics means more than fingerprints.
Unsupervised, all the biometric systems I'm aware of are just not all
that hard to work around and defeat. Thus you need human supervision at
the point of use. Given that, you might as well just drop the biometric
thing in favour of a card and PIN, and a person who visually identifies
everyone using these to gain access to whatever is being protected.
cjs
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