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Make your own ID

27 November 2007 by Tim 1 Comment

“I should have pointed out that every time you touch something, if your security systems rely on biometric ID, then you’re essentially leaving your pin number on a post-it note.” Bad Science

Lot’s of nice home science projects to do with the children. 🙂

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  1. computer security says

    28 November 2007 at 12:34

    Research carried out by the university found criminals are ‘shoulder surfing’ customers as they type in their PINs at the checkout and then stealing the cards, or using a stolen card by pretending to be a confused customer who has forgotten their PIN number so they are allowed to sign the receipt instead.

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