Sony Uses Finger Veins for Gadget Security

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Using finger veins to identify and authenticate user ID? Gee, where could that possibly go wrong? I can hear it now, a bunch of you guys getting the axe for using another body part for vein identification at the office. :D

Sony says vein authentication technology achieves higher accuracy and produces faster reads than other biometric authentication techniques, such as fingerprint or retinal scans. Finger vein patterns differ from person to person and finger to finger, Sony noted, and do not change over the years. Also, they're much easier to remember than passwords.
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???? say what? :eek: that is so weird. Is fingerprint not good enough???
 
Either the id scanner is pretty damn big or adjustable to acomidate most! or for the rest sorry! :eek: :D
 
It's all fun and games until somebody loses a finger.... :confused:

Really... this is going to present interesting challenges when Bob the employee comes back from the hospital after his weekend accident with the chainsaw... or when a company that depends on this technology for security has to set up a workaround or face a lawsuit from someone with an injury/medical condition that's left them without hands...
 
And at the end of the long slide down, companies will need two liters of your blood (really, just one but HR gets hungry so...).
 
this is old news. I saw this on the science channel like 2 months ago. Not sure if it was the same company though.
 
Shark-MegaByte said:
It's all fun and games until somebody loses a finger.... :confused:

Really... this is going to present interesting challenges when Bob the employee comes back from the hospital after his weekend accident with the chainsaw... or when a company that depends on this technology for security has to set up a workaround or face a lawsuit from someone with an injury/medical condition that's left them without hands...
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So what's the difference from a retinal scan? Or a fingerprint scan? All biometric scanning offer these risks, but so does the human mind.
 
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