Re: ibutton door access control

["Des Gibbons" <Des@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]

> How exactly does having a flashy, secure, personalised ibutton
> improve upon
> this situation? - it's still a "thing" that you have to
carry around with
> you, and if you leave the house in the morning and forget to take it
with
> you (can happen!) - you're stuffed! - If you "lose" your key
at work, or
> lock it in your car, you're stuffed - you're standing at your front
door,
> with no ibutton, and no way of gaining access to your own house!

You could always go for the really naff i-button ring ;)


>
> In my view, the ONLY way forward for conditional access control
> has got to
> be based on one of the various biometric recognition
> technologies. Currently
> I am aware of reliable recognition based on fingerprint scanning,
> Iris/retina scanning, voice recognition, and face recognition. I
> have seen

The fingerprint scanning seems like a fairly cheap way of achieving a
non-losable key, that is hard to duplicate. Although I'd much rather give a
thief my keys than one of my fingers ;)

Des gibbons


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