http://ohgizmo.disqus.com/enThu, 27 Dec 2007 10:37:06 -0000http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/05/21/one-second-iris-scanning-webcam-closer-to-market/#comment-1757481Do we even need a 'special biometric camera'? Cant it be only software dependant?AJThu, 27 Dec 2007 10:37:06 -0000http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/05/21/one-second-iris-scanning-webcam-closer-to-market/#comment-1757480Iris scanners can sometimes be fooled by a picture of the eye, depending on the technology. Also... if you really, really want to break one of these things, there's a possibility that the protocol from the reader to the laptop is insecure. So... make sure that no one's using a "usb sniffer" when you enroll your iris-print. Also, someone might want to do a 3rd party review to ensure that the protocol isn't so simple that the iris print is stored in the camera and the camera sends a "yup, that's the right eyeball" message when it sees an enrolled iris. Breaking something like that would be relatively trivial.<br><br>Also... insert all the standard disclaimers about biometrics. Somewhere in the system is a copy of your biometric, please make sure it's secure. If the biometric is on the laptop's hard drive, and I steal your hard drive, I can probably dig around until I figure out how to reverse engineer the scanner's control software to get it to think that a teddy bear is the key.<br><br>Admittedly, I'm probably not going to do this if the only thing on the protected laptop is your mother's gespacho recipe. But I hope you're not using this to protect the nuclear launch codes. That would be bad.Matt H.Tue, 23 May 2006 20:28:48 -0000http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/05/21/one-second-iris-scanning-webcam-closer-to-market/#comment-1757479Iris scanning DOES add one major thing to the mix that fingerprint scanning doesn't. Iris scanners cannot be faked by use of a gummy bear. If someone uses a fingerprint scanner, someone later can get the print with a gummy bear and use it to scan in successfully.MicahMon, 22 May 2006 17:11:19 -0000