experiences with fingerprint privacy managers?

[schmidt190]

i have been looking at this company UPEK (http://www.upek.com/solutions/mac/default.asp) and their product seems like a good deal...
anyone have any experiences with these sort of things?

 

[Jack Flash]

I remember tricking my old Microsoft Fingerprint reader with a Xerox of my fingerprint.

I'd say these are gimmicks.

 

[phannon666]

Very poor and useless, I've heard of them being tricked by simply breathing on them, causing condensation to form in the shape of the fingerprint.

 

[twitter]

as most of us know for years finger prints are not safe

take a look at

http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.xml?language=en

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8D4wWYgsc

and i hope you think twice.

get true crypt for mac and secure your computer this way

 

[schmidt190]

but do any of you have actual experience with this product?
its great that you heard about all these things, but this costs like $50 bucks... i dont think that you can just breathe on it...

 

[brand]

but this costs like $50 bucks... i dont think that you can just breathe on it...

So you think that just because it costs $50 that it is a quality product? You must be easily fooled.

 

[schmidt190]

thats not the point, its came up in the macworld conference expo, and won the 2007 CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) for the award of best innovations. im saying that this looks like a quality product, i doubt it would be easy to hack.
plus, who would go to all that trouble? unless someone stole my mbp and wanted to get into it, im just a college kid, its not like i have valuable personal info in my machine.

just looking for someone with experience with this particular product.

 

[Chrysaor]

I have built-in fingerprint reader on my XPS M1530 Hackintosh, using it with UPEK software. It is working pretty good, makes it very convenient, no need to type login or authentication passwords anymore.