Biometric Scanners as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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1,000 words · ~5 min read
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I got to admit whenever I hear biometric scanners it's hard for me to not
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instantly start Conjuring up images of a secret agent breaking into a fortified
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Facility by like plucking some dude's eye out of his skull and using it to
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bypass the scanner or some vault door or something but the fact of the matter is
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that both the definition and application of this technology tend to fall more
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into the Everyday Use category
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Biometrics is defined roughly as the analysis of biological data using
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statistical methods also including the use of digital scanners which utilize
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physiological traits as a way of personal identification while that may
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sound like a really technical boring definition the most commonplace one runs
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into such futuristic Concepts in Hardware is something very technical and
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boring a hospital in fact thanks in
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large part to the original Star Trek series which spurred their invention
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heads up biometric displays have been in operation at hospitals for decades now
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there nurses and doctors work to analyze changing factors such as your heart rate
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blood pressure and fluid levels to determine whether you've come down with
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the Ebola or you're just faking it to get away from your obnoxious boss
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biometric security scanners on the other hand work by analyzing physiological
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characteristics that are unlikely to change over time such as fingerprints
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retinas or voice patterns voice patterns voice patterns to verify the identity of
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an individual for businesses and governmental agencies the use of the
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these devices is becoming more and more common with each passing day with
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important facilities from private engineering firms to airports and
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military bases starting to implement them in ways that not only help to
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ensure secured access but also help to Monitor and verify that important
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documents such as shipping manifestos or top secret weapons plans have been
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handled and delivered accordingly changing gears to the personal side of
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the spectrum offerings have just started emerging that are putting this
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technology to great great use many of our viewers out there who are lucky
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enough to have their hands on either an iPhone 6 with Touch ID or a Galaxy S5
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with its fingerprint scanner can actually speak directly to the benefits
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of this amazing future technology not
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only do they gain increased Security on their personal devices but there's a
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certain ease of access that comes along with this implementation as well as one
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merely needs to press their finger on the appropriate place to quickly unlock
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their phone also with the iPhone's offering you get the ability to make
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purchases with the swipe of a finger what helps by eliminating the need for
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them to hand personal information to retailers every time they make a
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purchase convenient and secure but of
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course those of you lucky enough to own one of these devices is probably also
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aware of the many reports that claim that hackers have been able to defeat
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these security measures in certain instances and while the chances of that
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happening to a an average Joe individual are probably actually less likely than
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your standard type of you know 1 2 3 4
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or six 969 type of hack it goes without
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saying that this is one of the pitfalls of automated design while a standard
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Locker analog device such as a vault dial might not be able to distinguish
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between users that are allowed access or not allowed access it also actually
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gains some of its strength from this lack of features as the owner can easily
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prevent unwanted access by making sure that the key or the combination to
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either of them is never misplaced whereas if someone defeats a biometric
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scanner they are ostensibly considered to be You by whatever program they've
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accessed possibly preventing the realization that there has ever been any
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intrusion at all and none of this even mentions the sorts of ordinary hurdles
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that need to be ironed out with any of these emerging Technologies like
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creating an eye scanner that doesn't slowly burn your retinas out over time
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although on the bright side I guess it wouldn't matter then if you had your eye
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