[geeks] Interesting article on fingerprint biometric systems

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
" 
" On Tue, 11 May 2004, Sandwich Maker wrote:
" 
" > " > what makes them fall for the
" > " > duress code over the real one?
" > "
" > " Why wouldn't they fall for the duress code?
" >
" > ummm because they're sneaky, underhanded, devious, and suspicious?
" > and know the first code they're likely to get is the duress code?
" 
" One advantage of duress codes is not letting people know
" you use them.

hard to do if widely adopted, not a big help unless widely adopted.

" > as for airliners squawking 7700 - none of the 9/11 did.  suppose the
" > hijackers knew not to allow it?  or just killed the trained crew
" > before they could squawk?  remember, all those guys went through
" > -american- flight schools.  even if the squawk had had some sort of
" > dead-man switch, they'd have known.
" 
" Perhaps a universal 7700 wasn't such a great idea.  Perhaps each
" airline should have its own.

the amount of communication required to keep everyone up to date with
all the different airlines and each one's hijack squawk would itself
be a security nightmare.
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there's a problem here - they don't work if you implement them widely
[too many know], and they don't work if you don't implement them widely
[too few protected]...
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