biometrics

Swiss Army Knife maker Victorinox is asking the best of Britain's hackers to try and beat the biometric security built into its latest USB Flash drive-fitted penknife.

If you manage it, you stand to win £100,000.

In the last ten days we have learnt that “persons unknown” stole the identity of British citizens and cloned modern UK passports to enter Dubai to perform an assassination.

Last week, the Foreign Secretary got up in the House of Commons to say that his legal action before the Court of Appeal was to protect intelligence vital to national security given to the UK by the USA’s national security agencies.

There are obvious data protection consequences that flow from these events that are not being picked up by journalists as part of the current public discourse.

This new thumbdrive/memory stick/flash pin (choose or add your prefered name) offers a finger print scanner. A scanner that looks for the live skin, something that is claimed to increase accuracy, and allows you to use dirty fingers and still get access.

The only downside is that now I can no longer cut of your fingers to gain access to your data. I need you alive and kicking at my side...