Aren't biometrics fun?
Published: 22 October 2004 10:25 GMT
A new memory stick on sale next week turns fingerprints into passwords. Lexar Media's JumpDrive TouchGuard uses a sensor that reads the miniscule ridges on a finger, and unlocks the encrypted data on the USB memory stick if there's a match.
"It's going to be in Best Buy [one of the largest chains of US consumer electronics shops] stores starting Monday," Christopher Crump, a project manager at Cogent Systems, said Thursday. Cogent wrote the software. Fujitsu makes the finger-scanning chip for the TouchGuard stick, which was demonstrated at a technology conference this week. Sony already sells a similar product called Micro Vault.
This is hardly new technology. Get with the times....
Darrall Pullen
Darren, similar but not the SAME...well done you f...
Ruprecht
Will it work on Linux?
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