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Smell (Score:2)

by zobier ( 585066 ) writes:

Any authentication method can be fooled however smell is going to be quite challenging.
I guess you could stalk your target and try to steal their sweaty clothes.
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  by zobier ( 585066 ) writes:
  
  Actually a combination of smell, voiceprint and passphrase would be good.
  Say your passphrase into the micro-smellophone (with voice recognition).
  Bonus points if 'twere muffled such as to stifle eavesdropping.
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  by ben0207 ( 845105 ) writes:
  
  Yeah, none of them seem 100% secure to me. I went with Retinal, because I tihnk for most smaller crimes at least criminals a re unlikely to go to the trouble of cutting out an eye.
  At least, I hope they would be.
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  by madhurms ( 736552 ) writes:
  
  steal their sweaty clothes
  
  That might not help, if authentication is based on odor: http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/2223205/ [slashdot.org]
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    by madhurms ( 736552 ) writes:
    
    I forgot to add. A two factor authentication is always better than just one.
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    by zobier ( 585066 ) writes:
    
    Do sweaty clothes not contain a person's odour?
East Germeny Saved Smells (Score:3, Interesting)

by Anonymous Monkey ( 795756 ) writes: on Friday November 14, 2008 @03:43PM (#25764301)

I remember seeing a tv program about the East German Secret Police and the kind of stuff they kept on file. They even developed a method for saving smells and and they had a massive catalog of smells from different crime scenes. The show went on to say that though the methods of gathering evidence worked, and they gathered a tremendous amount of it, they soon had so much data that they could not sort through it and were no longer able to function....oh, and my point was I can steal your smell and brake into your computer, along with every one else, and have so many stolen credit card numbers that I won't know which one to use.

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The hug test (Score:1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

it allows one to verify identity AND gender in one simple test :-)

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