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Microcap & Penny Stocks : IDTEK Smart-card fingerprint security
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To: David who wrote (3)1/14/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: caly  Read Replies (2) of 11
 
I still think the big advantage is cost. Smartcard readers cost as little as $6.00 to make. Combine a fingerprint scanner on a smartcard, and you've got a very low-cost end-user biometric authentication system...the kind that could be used for digital cash, home banking etc... When you're talking about end-users in the millions, the cost of the enrollment station (which is probably nothing more than a PC), is insignificant.

IMO, the thing that has kept biometrics out of the mainstream is plain and simply cost.

IDtek may be onto something. Maybe IDX should look into buying them too....
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