Grant Evans, vice president of Identix, calls it a small problem. Gail Koehler, vice president of technology for Purdue Employees Credit Union in West Lafayette, Ind., was worried that members would be upset when she first deployed fingerprint scanners in her automated branch kiosks. Koehler says 12,000 members have registered their fingerprints with the credit union. It was wasted dollars. We've basically had no objections.
Members prefer the security.
No system is foolproof While biometrics may be considered light years ahead of using passwords and IDs when it comes to user authentication and network security, nothing is perfect. And to prove that point, Martin Reynolds, an analyst at DataQuest, created duplicates of his fingerprints on thin pieces of rubber to trick a fingerprint scanner. After finding success there, he started creating rubber fingers with fingerprints embedded on them. It's not trivial, but they can be beaten. I did it right in my own kitchen.