[F8] fingerprint scanner

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:23:48 +0000
Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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 :-).