biometrics

[GCC Consulting]

As I stated earlier, no security system is fool-proof.  All you can do is take
reasonable precautions to protect what ever it is you want to protect.

You can have the most ingenious locking system, steel reinforced doors,
monitoring equipment, etc, but if the walls are thin or made from wallboard,
avoid the problem and go through the wall.  

About 30 years ago in NY's  Chinatown area a jewelry store on the second floor
of a building had it's safe stolen at noon time on a work day.  The thieves got
someone in, they had a "cherry picker" parked below the store's window.  They
placed a cable around the 1 ton safe, pulled it across the floor and thru the
wall.  It crashed to the ground, using a small winch to get it on to a flat bed
truck and drove off.  People stood in the street watching the robbery
transfixed.

Even people working in "secure" areas can be lax in their security procedures.
As I said, I ran base security checks while in the army and on quite a few
occasions got passed armed security guards and alarm systems :). As a sgt I got
dressed down more then once by officers in charge of the areas (:.  What I had
going of course, were orders from higher ranking officers.

IBM on a number of their ThinkPad models have placed a fingerprint scanner to
control access to the laptop.  

I am writing a system for an account where there is a requirement for password
authentication for using many of the modules.  Conceivably it may be easier to
use a fingerprint scanner then have each person constantly type their login and
password as currently required.  Now, will the cost be worth it to my client,
that is the question.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting