CNN.com - Technology - New notebooks offer biometric protection - February 2, 2001

[Jim Choate]

Hi,

If all you use the biometrics for is authentication then yes, physical
control of the machine will allow a bypass of the technology. However, if
you use it also for the key to the file system then it becomes much more
secure. As I understand it there is no file system level protection
offered through this technology at this time.

It is a start howerver...

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, POF wrote:

> Thanks for the article, but i have some questions/comments that perhaps
> require some clearing up.... even if it were in perfect working order, this
> technology sounds to me like another coup for crypto... what i mean is,
> simply, bits are bits, and the data on the drive could be read in a part by
> part basis (perhaps i don't have the vocabulary for this, but the idea is
> here).... sorta like "ta hell with the security, if i just take the drive,
> or the platter even i can just read it raw and then all i have to contend
> with is the encryption"
> 
> well, sorry for my ignorance... perhaps you could clear it up if needed :)

> At 07:11 AM 2/5/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/02/02/biometric.security.idg/index.h
> tml

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