Beware Fingerprint Reader Peripherals

[joyful]

Fingerprint readers mean you don't have to type in a login and password all the time.

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The fingerprints stored by these devices can be uploaded to big brother data warehouses like every other file on your computer. All windows operating sytems since Windows 95 have a built in NSA backdoor so they can log into your computer without you knowing and read and copy your files. These fingerprint readers could be used to flesh out the CIA's biometric databases on the quiet.

[thomps1d]

I'm just waiting for the day that Microsoft announces that, in order to save consumers hard drive space and ensure that their fingerprint can access multiple computers without training each of them (such as in a corporate environment), they will store the fingerprint information in a nice centralized database.

It's the sort of thing that makes sense on a big brothery sort of level, and would doubtlessly be very popular and successful - and have a potential for abuse that can't be measured.


Fingerprint readers mean you don't have to type in a login and password all the time.
The fingerprints stored by these devices can be uploaded to big brother data warehouses like every other file on your computer. All windows operating sytems since Windows 95 have a built in NSA backdoor so they can log into your computer without you knowing and read and copy your files. These fingerprint readers could be used to flesh out the CIA's biometric databases on the quiet.