{"id":150,"date":"2001-04-06T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-06T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2001-04-06T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-06T18:19:00","slug":"biometrics-in-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Biometrics in hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAnother <a href=\"http:\/\/techweb.com\/wire\/story\/TWB20010405S0002\">naive article<\/a> about biometrics (5 Apr 2001) in hospitals to protect sensitive patient data.  From MedcomSoft, a Canadian company.<\/p>\n<p>How is this any better than a password?  In fact, it's worse than a password for two reasons:<br  \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>If<br \/>\nyour password is \"cracked\", you can change it. On the other hand, if<br \/>\nthere's some kind of a bug in the software of the fingerprint reader<br \/>\nsuch that they can capture the digitized image of your fingerprint,<br \/>\nthen your screwed. Hmm, actually that could work ten times. But then<br \/>\nwhat?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>What about people with no fingers?  What about people who loose fingers?<br  \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><br  \/><br \/>\nSigh&#8230;  Bruce Schneier has covered all this ground in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpane.com\/crypto-gram.html\">Crypto-Gram newsletter<\/a> and his book, Secrets &amp; Lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another naive article about biometrics (5 Apr 2001) in hospitals to protect sensitive patient data. From MedcomSoft, a Canadian company. How is this any better than a password? In fact, it's worse than a password for two reasons: If your password is \"cracked\", you can <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=150\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}