Bruce Schneier: Tigers use scent, birds use calls – biometrics are just animal instinct (Guardian Unlimited)
Biometrics may seem new, but they're the oldest form of identification. Tigers recognise each other's scent; penguins recognise calls. Humans recognise each other by sight from across the room, voices on the phone, signatures on contracts and photographs on drivers' licences. Fingerprints have been used to identify people at crime scenes for more than 100 years. What is new about biometrics ... Looking sheepish (BBC News)
New technology aims to frustrate sheep rustlers Will biometrics measure up to the future? (CNN)
Who could forget the scene from John Woo's 1993 B-movie "Hard Target," where an imprisoned Jean-Claude Van Damme burns the skin off his index finger, attaches it to an impromptu mechanical contraption and booby-traps it to hit the scanner at precisely the scheduled time each morning, so that his captors don't notice his escape? ForeScout CounterACT Added to U.S. Armys Approved Products List (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CUPERTINO, Calif.----ForeScout Technologies, a market leader in network access control and policy management solutions for large enterprises, today announced that its CounterACTâ„¢ network access control solution has been added to the United States Army Information Assurance Approved Products List .
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