Terry's Computer Tips - Newsletter
June 3, 2007
Volume 2, Number 51 — Sunday, June 3, 2007
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3. Biometric Security - Fingerprint Readers
Do you have highly confidential data on your computer? If you're a home user, you might consider your financial records on your computer to be highly confidential. Certainly you would consider your banking and credit card information highly ocnfidential.
Biometric security is the field of computer security that uses measurements of biological aspects of the authorized users as passwords or additional security for the computer's data.
One of the most common biometric security devices is one that you might actually have on your home computer.
Many computer users purchase a fingerprint reader for thie computers. With the fingerprint reader, they are able to walk up to their computer, press their finger on the reader — and be immediately logged into the computer.
Some fingerprint authentication systems stop at that point. They allow you an effortless logon to your biometric password-protected computer, but don't give you any more capabilities.
Other biometric password systems do a much better job of making your life easier.
The Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Unfortunately, for Firefox users, so far I haven't been able to idenfity any fingerprint readers that work witn Firefox.
If you know of one, tell me about it using the "Comment About This Article Now" link below.
4. Biopassword Security
There's another type of biometric security system that is not nearly so intrusive. Well, gee, pressing your finger on a pad isn't very intrusive, is it?
What do you think about a system that requires you to have a password and to type your password? That sounds like Windows, Linux, and web sites, doesn't it.
But, there's a world of difference with Biopassword from www.biopassword.com. Biopassword is a authentication system, or perhaps, a verifying authentication system.
Biopassword is installed at the web server or network server and watches as you type your password. It monitors your keystroke pattern — the rhythm of how you type the letters and numbers and other characters that make up your password — and compare that pattern to the way you typed the password when you signed up.
In other words, Biopassword is designed to make sure that You are really You.
Biopassword is designed for corporate systems, including banking and other financial firms doing business over the Internet, as a method to reduce the losses from hacking and stolen passwords.
Biopassword is produced and marked by Biopassword, Inc. It started life in 2000 as a new product of a company much more famous for another of its protection product — Net Nanny 5.5 Web Filtering Parental Control Software
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Volume 2, Number 51 — Sunday, June 3, 2007
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