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raesene4
12y ago
you might want to review some of the literature around bypassing fingerprint readers before making that kind of statement... A large number of readers are easily fooled by copied prints. Also there's the False acceptance/false r
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raesene4
12y ago
I really like this concept, it's great for using sites that you want to buy from but aren't too confident on their security, but it's not exactly new. I had virtual card number generators in the UK 5+ years ago with cahoot (u
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raesene4
12y ago
Possibly although the attack surface of this kind of solution is quite a bit bigger than that of a traditional card. Introducing complications like smartphone apps and increased complexity of programming on the card itself, has quite a bit
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raesene4
12y ago
Whilst I wouldn't go as far as to say "never going to happen", I am fairly cynical about this and similar products like coin. Not for any particular technical reason (although I'd be very interested to hear how they plan
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raesene4
12y ago
For me, I don't think that applications like this are targeted at "Joe End User" more at technical people who would like more information about what network connections are happening from their machine. Personally I've b
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raesene4
12y ago
I'm all for caution when it comes to installing software, but it seems in your comment that you're suggesting that this software is actually malicious. Do you have any evidence of malicious intent/execution from this software