Finger print should not be password for a simple reason, it's going to be easier with technology to steal finger print; unlike password you can't change it : (. I saw and read document on technology available to transfer finger print into glove like molds. Finger print will eventually become Identity theft next biggest challenge.
Agreed. Unless phishing somehow becomes a solved problem which I don't see happening, then biometric authentication should never become mainstream. As it stands now, successful phishing attacks range in severity from mild annoyances to somewhat harmful. In all cases, though, they can ultimately be contained so that people can move on with their life. Biometric id, on the other hand, can't be readily changed.
Has anything other than biometric authentication been used as ultimate identification for the past 100,000 years? What would you replace this presently-ubiquitous identity system with?
What humans do to recognize each other is totally different from "biometric authentication" as the term is used in computer security.
How is it different? Your acquaintances do not sense general factors of Wmfness based on your height, build, voice, accent, verbal expressions, face, hair-color, hair-style, hair-length, facial hair, clothes, accessories, gait, hand-size, foot-size, body odor, etc.?
The difference is the ability to duplicate that information. For normal face to face recognition, it is reliable because it is impossible to totally duplicate another person even if you are given complete knowledge of every identifiable feature of that person.
Electronic biometric identification, on the other hand, can be flawlessly duplicated provided that you have accurate information on the aspect of the person being used to id them, as well as the method of transmitting the data.
Your acquaintances do not sense general factors of Wmfness based on your height, build, voice, accent, verbal expressions, face, hair-color, hair-style, hair-length, facial hair, clothes, accessories, gait, hand-size, foot-size, body odor, etc.?
Thank you; that's exactly my point. Biometric authentication products on the market look at only one or two aspects, not the whole person. Heck, most fingerprint readers don't even care whether there's a person attached to the finger.
Because fooling an electronic device (which has to eventually encode your identity as a stream of 1s and 0s anyway) is a lot different from fooling another human.
In some cases, it might be more difficult to dupe a machine, but in many cases, it would also be easier.
