By Jo Best
Published: Monday 15 September 2008
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Phil Rae
Location
London, UK
Occupation
I.T. Consultant
Comment
"According to Comet, the rise in sales of PCs with biometrics scanners comes as a result of Britons seeking better security"
Is it not just because PCs happen to include fingerprint scanners these days? I personally have a fingerprint scanner on my laptop (an HP), and while it worked well, the software required made my laptop sloooooowww... so I inevitable had to un-install it.
I'm afraid that if biometrics is truly going to take off (which I hope it does), the software will have to come up to scratch.
The amazing thing is that the laptop manufacturers...
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