[ltp] Fingerprint reader and the Bios

[SOTL]

Just can not wait until some teenager figures that he can have all the goodies 
he wants free by copy someone else's fingerprints on a high definition color 
printer, cut the image out and tape it to his finger and placing said finger 
in the store's finger print scanner. 

Just think of it one could develop quite an active market selling finger 
prints and identity kits on eBay.

Thanks, but NO THANKS for me either for either the consumer or supply side.

SOTL

On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:18 pm, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> True, true...  I would be happier if they prompted me with a warning
> saying "this might be dangerous, use at your own risk".  Since I'm
> installing the thing anyway, they're only making it harder on me.  And
> I think all the wireless and video drivers have proven that no Linux
> distro is immune to shipping proprietary privileged code.
>
> Anyway, I guess this is well and truly off-topic.  Sorry!  :)
>
> Aaron
>
> On 1/26/06, Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:35, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> > > I don't get this either.  To me, the fingerprint reader is way more
> > > secure because the only meaningful risk I feel I run is typing in my
> >
> > When they say it's less secure, they're not talking aboout your login or
> > data, they're talking THEM helping hackers attack machines THEIR software
> > is installed on by providing add-on code that runs with root privileges
> > as part of THEIR set up.
> >
> > You are thinking about getting access to your machine.  They are thinking
> > about automating the installation of code that provides a weakness for
> > hackers to exploit.  Since the code in question is proprietary, they
> > can't examine it to determine if it has any exploitable weaknesses, and
> > they can't fix it if it does.  Experience has shown that this is not a
> > good idea.
> >
> > SuSE is doing the right thing here, but it's a different issue than the
> > one you appear to think it is.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bret