Let Your Fingers Do the Securing

Mainstream consumer products may soon readily integrate fingerprint authentication technology. Although consumers have had some reluctance to adopt the technology in the past, a new single-chip, match-on-a-sensor" device for use in notebook PCs claims to overcome this issue by offering a new level of fingerprint-based biometric security that comes at a lower price. Do you have data that needs this level of protection? Is the feature useful or useless?

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