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pym
02-15-2006, 06:59 AM
The Vista will inroduce a new way of authentication using InfoCards.

Now, with Windows Vista, Gates feels he finally has the right weapons to supplant the password as a means of verifying who is who on computers and over the Internet.

Interesting read.
http://news.com.com/Gates+End+to+passwords+in+sight/2100-7355_3-6039177.html
XJnine
02-15-2006, 02:32 PM
On a side note, has anyone tried the new fingerprint scanner thing that MS has been offering? Just wondering how well it works and if it's a good way to replace having to remember all my passwords.

If you've tried one, let us know!
pym
02-15-2006, 03:54 PM
On a side note, has anyone tried the new fingerprint scanner thing that MS has been offering? Just wondering how well it works and if it's a good way to replace having to remember all my passwords.

If you've tried one, let us know!

When you say "new", what do you mean?
I heard about these a long time ago.
Or I am getting you wrong...
XJnine
02-15-2006, 04:09 PM
I thought they had only been around for about 6 months. To me that's kinda new, maybe.

Maybe they've been around longer. Dunno...
ghidora
02-15-2006, 10:44 PM
The Microsoft fingerprint scanner hasn't been around for very long. Fingerprint scanners in general have.
Null
02-16-2006, 12:51 AM
Fingerprint scanner.

Safe!

Secure!

Works with Play-Doh!

Doh!
XJnine
02-16-2006, 01:25 AM
I wouldn't be too concerned about the security of the device since it'd be used in my house, I just want it for convenience. As long as it's reliable I think it would be useful instead of having to remember passwords for a bunch of different places. Of course the downside is I won't know the passwords when I use another computer because I'll have stopped remembering them. :cry:
pym
02-16-2006, 05:26 AM
That's a big disadvantage for that scanner.
You "forget" your passwords and when you need them on another machine, you just don't have them ;)
liqnit
02-16-2006, 05:37 AM
regarding fingerprint scanner waht if accidently have borowse on your finger or such a thing
then no option to access your computer.
and regarding InfoCards that verify you over the net .
again if your dependent in other sites of verification then you have a problem.
currently Password give a decent answer for my needs.
XJnine
02-16-2006, 09:36 PM
The MS fingerprint scanner is just a device that will automatically fill in a password on a web form if you want it to by scanning your fingerprint. You can still manually enter passwords so you don't have to worry about being locked out of the websites and it's not a device that's needed to start up windows.
Fantasma
02-17-2006, 10:26 AM
If really you need to have internet to use those cards and be dependent of other sites, that wouldnīt be good, but itīs a way of preventing piracy