Don Norman on CHI-WEB

"NOTE: bio-identifiers are still primitive. They don't work for everyone. And several people have managed surprisingly simple ways of spoofing them (the schemes range from photos, to recordings, to clever ways of lifting latent prints to breathing lightly across the fingerprint pad thereby re-enabling the fingerprints of the last previous user!)"

Not 1984, Brazil. See also the ACLU on face recognition.

Not 1984, Brazil. See also the ACLU on face recognition.

Another problem with biometric security... If someone steals my password, I can change it. If someone steals my fingerprint, I can't.

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