I asked somebody to write me the complete text of the Geman magazine, but all I got was a repot from an american magazine. In case somebody doesn't know it here it is...
hi Robert,
sorry h„nge wieder etwas mit dem mailen hinterher...
Hab heute versucht die neue Ausgabe vom Aktion„r zu bekommen -
Fehlanzeige !
(4 L„den in HH abgeklappert, war nix, vielleicht war jemand woanders
erfolgreicher?)
Du h”rst von mir wenn's Neuigkeiten gibt!
Sch”ne Gráe Holle
P.S. Evtl. tuts auch der Bericht aus dem Investors Daily, den Tenbagger
heute gepostet hat:
Computers Made Plain PC Security A
Touch, Face Or Voice Away
May 21, 1998 - Investor's Business Daily
By: Michael Tarsala
Today's computer network security technologies are mostly about
what you have -a pass card - or what you know - a password.
Thanks to biometrics, tomorrow's security won't require either, says
Peter Tippett, chief executive of the International Computer Security
Association. Instead, all you'll need is . . . you.
A biometric is a unique, measurable characteristic or trait of someone.
Products can measure a biometric and then use it to recognize the
individual. Though not used much in the computer world yet,
biometrics soon will be, Tippett says. Such products can "read"
fingerprints, faces and voices.
"It's coming out of James Bond and becoming real world," Tippett
said. "The products are starting to work, and prices are coming down.
We won't need to remember 27 passwords. Computers should
recognize people the way people recognize us when we walk into
offices."
There even are biometric products that identify people by scanning
their retinas with a laser.
"It's no more dangerous than looking out your window," Tippett said.
Such products do require a pretty precise read, though, he says.
Biometric technology is still emerging. And many of the products don't
work well yet, Tippett says. That's why the International Computer
Security Association of Carlisle, Pa., has set standards to test
biometric products.
Only a few have passed the ICSA test. But Tippett expects dozens of
biometric products to win ICSA approval within the next few months.
Most biometric products today are used for granting access to
buildings or rooms. If you are authorized and stick your face in front
of a camera or your finger in a little reader device, a door will open.
But many companies are betting that biometrics will find larger
markets in such fields as computers and automated teller machines.
"They're going to install these things into computer systems -
fingerprint devices and other sorts of things -within a year," Tippett
said.
Several computer makers are considering deals with biometric
companies to put small fingerprint readers or face-recognition
software using tiny cameras into some of their PCs.
Privately held Miros Inc. in Wellesley, Mass., makes a consumer
product called TrueFace PC. It scans faces to grant computer security
clearance. It works with a black-and-white camera that sits atop a PC
monitor and costs roughly $40. The software costs another $60, and
works on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 and Windows NT
operating systems.
The TrueFace PC software searches for the way light patterns reflect
off your face. If your "faceprint" matches a past picture of you, then
TrueFace PC grants you access to a computer or computer network.
"You can't spoof it with photographs," said Joe Burke, vice president
of marketing for Miros. "It can tell if it's looking at a 2-D or 3-D
image. And you can't spoof it by putting on a mustache or makeup.
Inherently, things like how far your cheekbones stick out will make
you stand out from someone else."
The software, though, might confuse identical twins, Burke says.
Miros hopes to sell its software to financial companies, government
agencies and medical facilities.
Replacing passwords with fingerprints is the goal of Mytec
Technologies Inc., a privately held Toronto-based company. Its
software measures the distances between lines on a finger to identify
people.
Mytec doesn't have a consumer product that can protect individual
PCs. But it does sell a fingerprint reader and PC software for about
$750 that are used to protect bank vaults and museums, says Mytec
President Tom Grecco.
By year-end, Mytec hopes to have a fingerprint security device that
hooks to laptop PCs to prevent unwanted entries, Grecco says. He
expects the price to be $200 to $250.
Some companies are working to incorporate fingerprint readers into
computer keyboards, ICSA's Tippett says.
"One vendor has a deal with a keyboard maker that has a fingerprint
recognizer in it," Tippett said. "It (will) cost an extra $18 for the
keyboard."
The vendor, which Tippett wouldn't name, hasn't passed ICSA's
testing.
Remote access is a prime market for biometric technology, says
Joseph Baranauskas, chief executive of privately held Intelitrak
Technologies Inc. in Austin, Texas. The company sells a hardware
and software system that gives remote PC users access to a
company's network by checking their "voiceprint."
"Before you can gain access, you have to call in with a regular
telephone and go through a voice authentication process,"
Baranauskas said.
The process takes two to three minutes, he says. You're asked to
repeat into the phone several random number combinations. A
computer compares your voice pitch, cadence, frequency, tone,
duration and other factors to determine your identity.
More biometric products are likely to hit the market in the next two
years, ICSA's Tippett says.
"There are some products that claim to recognize body odor, and can
tell yours from somebody else's," Tippett said. "We haven't tested
those."
(Copyright Investor's Business Daily, Inc. 1998) |
