Biometrics is a set of methods related to unique identification of people based on physiological or behavioural traits
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Why do we even use passwords / passphrases next to biometrics?
In the last couple of days there were a lot of talking about passwords and passphrases, not only here, but on several blogs and forums I follow (especially after XKCD #936 saw the light of this ...
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Biometric versus other Two Factor Authentication Mechanisms
Over the years biometrics is the go-to movie authentication mechanism, but in the real world I'm getting conflicting opinions about it. Everything I've learned shows that biometrics are flawed ...
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Non-OEM Biometric Software?
Most of us with fingerprint readers and such devices probably use the software provided by the vendor, to enable biometric OS login or single sign-on functionality. However, I've recently wondered if ...
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Biometric authentication in the real world
can anyone give a realistic estimation, based on real-world experience, of how much biometric authentication techniques are being used in the IT field?
