With the current state of biometric technologies and the questions surrounding the security and integrity of stored biometric data, the public is not so much gullible as rightly sceptical.
Companies using fingerprint readers to increase security now have to worry about a new threat: the gummy finger.
Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the US to issue passports with radio tags are now doing so, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
Companies are "fiddling while Rome burns" by continuing to put their faith in passwords to guarantee user authentication, a Gartner analyst has warned.
Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger from cyberterrorism is "overblown."
The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.
Companies using fingerprint readers to increase security now have to worry about a new threat: the gummy finger.
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