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The Security of Biometrics: Two Screws and a Plastic Cover
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You can press your eyeballs into retina scanners or you can just swipe a proximity card across a reader and have it beep and flash green at you to let you into … well, a secure section of an airport, say. Unfortunately, these systems are all laughably eas



These are the bones of a typical biometrics or proximity card system: A card reader (the tan box mounted on the lycra display to the left), is connected through wire to an access control system (to the bottom right of the lycra display). In the foreground

 
 
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  1. The Security of Biometrics: Two Screws and a Plastic Cover
  2. Quick Connect
  3. Cover Off
  4. Access Control System
  5. Amber Light Identifying User with Access Rights
  6. Proximity Cards
  7. All Systems Go
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