fingerprint, or strong password and fingerprint. What's perfectly clear, though, is that the good old days when we reused passwords with gay abandon are now gone, and it's time to ensure that our information is kept safe. And that safety requires that a problem in one part of my digital life doesn't become a firestorm that rages through all aspects of your digital life. From around the web User comments Fingerprint... I'd watch out, last month the UPEK software for the fingerprint readers built into most laptops came under fire, because it stores all passwords in the open area of the Registry "almost in plain text, barely scrambled but not encrypted." Jon is one of the UK's most respected IT journalists and a contributing editor to PC Pro since it launched in 1994. He specialises in Microsoft technologies, including client/server and office automation applications.