Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/0640206 Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-10-15 12:39:00 jangobongo writes "Researchers at the [1]VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have come up with a unique way to secure your cell phone if it should get lost or stolen: 'Gait code'. Motion sensors in the phone would [2]monitor the walking pattern (or gait) of whoever is in possession of the phone, and if the 'gait' doesn't match a pre-established biometric the phone would require a password to operate. The prototype cell phone correctly identified when it was being carried by someone other than its owner 98% of the time. The research team [3]points out (powerpoint document) that this method could also work for PDAs, laptops, USB tokens, smart cards, wallets, suitcases, and guns." References 1. http://www.vtt.fi/indexe.htm 2. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8161 3. http://www.vtt.fi/vtt/uutta/2005/img/wsbr/tiedoteeng.doc ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]