Fingerprint Login for PCs

[CRXican]

My workplace has started installing fingerprint pads on our employee PCs to log us on to the main system. While it seems cool I don't really see what's so great about it. The time I take to reach over and put my finger down, I could have typed my password. However the first one I know of that the IT department installed was for a women in my department who would continually lock herself out by typing the wrong password, I guess that would be the main advantage, one less password to remember.

Anyone else have any experience with this fingerprint stuff?

 

[acemcmac]

yeah, we used it in a special lab at my school.... more just to explore the technology and educate rather than to implement.... it was finiky unreliable and limmited.... I'll stick with passwords any day

 

[Juice Box]

well it DOES prevent ppl from leaking passwords which allow hax0rs into the system....provided it is a good security system

 

[Hammer]

i have the microsoft keyboard with the fingerprint reader built in. its nice i guess. not really necessary, but cool.

 

[Amused]

Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Amused
Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

I dunno.... it seemed pretty easy in mission impossible.... but then again, that WAS Tom Cruise....

 

[Phoenix86]

First, no password resets EVER!

Second, you can learn a user's password through social engineering. It's a bit harder to get a finger print over the phone...

Third, did I mention you will never have to reset a user's password again?

All that being said the system must work to be effective. So if it's "finiky" like acemcmac's was it's useless...

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare

Originally posted by: Amused
Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

I dunno.... it seemed pretty easy in mission impossible.... but then again, that WAS Tom Cruise....

and it WAS a movie...

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: digitalsnare

Originally posted by: Amused
Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

I dunno.... it seemed pretty easy in mission impossible.... but then again, that WAS Tom Cruise....

 

[kranky]

I have a Tablet PC that lets you sign on with your signature instead of a password. Pretty cool.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I don't like the idea of having a password that I leave lying around all over the place.

Not to mention finger print readers are VERY easy to fool (gelatin).

They're worthless.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Biggest advantage to me would be not having to worry about remembering all my passwords.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Amused
Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

haha...24...first season...

 

[gluck]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Amused
Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

haha...24...first season...

Pretty easy though. I remember when we first installed this system like 3-4 yrs ago it sucked coz with finger prints the issue of cleaning the device to clear out the earlier print is some thing thats not easy to handle. Wipe the device and then do it again and all that crap. Didn't like it and threw it out of the door.

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
First, no password resets EVER!

Second, you can learn a user's password through social engineering. It's a bit harder to get a finger print over the phone...

Third, did I mention you will never have to reset a user's password again?

All that being said the system must work to be effective. So if it's "finiky" like acemcmac's was it's useless...

uh what if you lose your finger? or someone takes off with it?

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: Anonemous

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
First, no password resets EVER!

Second, you can learn a user's password through social engineering. It's a bit harder to get a finger print over the phone...

Third, did I mention you will never have to reset a user's password again?

All that being said the system must work to be effective. So if it's "finiky" like acemcmac's was it's useless...

uh what if you lose your finger? or someone takes off with it?

funny you should say that, they take a print from two finger so that there is a back up finger, lol

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

That's like the CAC system for the military. Not bad.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I don't like the idea of having a password that I leave lying around all over the place.

Not to mention finger print readers are VERY easy to fool (gelatin).

They're worthless.

That's the previous generation. There are new types that work better.

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[IGBT]

..I've seen timeclocks with this..no time card..just finger/punch in. No more buddy punching.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: PHiuR

Originally posted by: digitalsnare

Originally posted by: Amused
Someone can steal your password. They can't steal your fingerprint. (Well, not easily, at least.)

I dunno.... it seemed pretty easy in mission impossible.... but then again, that WAS Tom Cruise....

and it WAS a movie...

and it WAS a joke.......

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

500+ Lusers that can't remeber their *expletive deleted* passwords and lock themselves out because typing in USER NAME: pdiddy PASSWORD:12345 is too *expletive deleted* tough to commit to memory even though they can tell you all about the *expletive deleted* latest reality show that sucks *expletive deleted*....


There... I said it... I feel better.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I don't like the idea of having a password that I leave lying around all over the place.

Not to mention finger print readers are VERY easy to fool (gelatin).

They're worthless.

That's the previous generation. There are new types that work better.

Pop Sci Article

All you have to do to foil fingerprint reader is take a certain unnamed powder, dust the print pad, and push a piece of plastic down over the pad with a finger. Instant fingerprint-from-the-last-guy. Fingerprint readers are easy to fool.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I don't like the idea of having a password that I leave lying around all over the place.

Not to mention finger print readers are VERY easy to fool (gelatin).

They're worthless.

That's the previous generation. There are new types that work better.

Pop Sci Article

All you have to do to foil fingerprint reader is take a certain unnamed powder, dust the print pad, and push a piece of plastic down over the pad with a finger. Instant fingerprint-from-the-last-guy. Fingerprint readers are easy to fool.

And how would this fool any of the above quoted techniques? Are you still referring to photo scanners despite quoting my post which refers to newer scanning technologies?

 

[SpazzyChicken]

We have fingerprint scanners on all of the Radiologists' reading workstations. They had a "neat" appeal to them at first...........but that wore off rather quickly. Maybe it is just the model (Keytronic Secure Keyboard), but they are hella inaccurate. Most logins take 2-3 attempts.

Most of them don't even bother with them anymore. they have the option to use a username and password instead.

 

[Kelemvor]

We have a little fingerprint scanner thing but don't have any software to go with it. Anyone have anything they can recommend that's hopefully really cheap? heh.