>     JAPANESE RESEARCHER GUMS UP BIOMETRICS SCANNERS
>
> Posted May 16, 2002 12:53 Pacific Time
>
>  A JAPANESE RESEARCHER has demonstrated that some biometric
> fingerprint readers can often be fooled into granting access
> to unauthorized users with a few dollars of household
> supplies and a little ingenuity.
>
> The discovery was disclosed on May 14 in a presentation
> given by Tsutomu Matsumoto -- who is affiliated with the
> Graduate School on Environment and Information Sciences at
>  Yokohama National University in Japan -- at the ITU-T
> Workshop on Security being held in Seoul, South Korea.
> Matsumoto posted his presentation online but news of the
> discovery was spread most widely through the new issue of
> security guru Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram e-mail
> newsletter, which was released Wednesday.
>
>
> For the full story:
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/16/020516hngums.xml
>
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> QUOTE OF THE DAY:
> "When we look back 25 years from now at all the
> things we got so excited about in 2002, they
> will seem quaint and maybe, to the
> unsympathetic mind, slightly pathetic."
>
> --"Wireless World" columnist Ephraim Schwartz.

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