Since I'm not squeamish about such things, I do have tin snips and will happily assist in revocation of compromised biometric authentication factors.
Andrew On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Ken Chase <m...@sizone.org> wrote: > (forking the thread here..) > > Biometrics are still the new hotness out in North America. Cologix whom I > deal > with in Canada has a dozen and a half odd POPs in canada/usa and I think > has > fingerprinting at all sites. > > If the current best operating practice is to avoid biometrics, why are they > still in use out here? Has anyone gotten the message? Is anyone in North > America > ripping them out yet? > > Other factors include your country's privacy regulations for storing > irreplaceable personal information, the burden of which might not be worth > the security 'benefit'. > > /kc > > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:46:02PM -0400, William Herrin said: > >On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, J??rg Kost <j...@ip-clear.de> wrote: > > > >> Do you guys still at least have biometric access control devices at > your > >> Level3 dc? They even removed this things at our site, because there > is no > >> budget for a successor for the failing unit. And to be consistent, > they > >> event want to remove all biometric access devices at least across > Germany. > >> > > > >Hi J??rg, > > > >IMO, biometric was a gimmick in the first place and a bad idea when > >carefully considered. All authenticators can be compromised. Hence, all > >authenticators must be replaceable following a compromise. If one of > your > >DCs' palm vein databases is lost, what's your plan for replacing that > hand? > > > >Regards, > >Bill Herrin > > > > > >-- > >William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > >Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> > > -- > Ken Chase - m...@sizone.org Guelph Canada >
