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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (5672)	12/23/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: David	Respond to of 10293

"Passwords are ubiquitous, simple, cheap, and will be with us for a long, long time." Yeah, and as long as they are, so will high help desk costs and unnecessary fraud. Visa and Mastercard together suffer $1B per year in avoidable losses. There are unknown, but growing, social losses via identity theft. The nonrepudiation provided by biometrics will also allow more legal, medical and financial transactions to occur over the Internet, and can cut identity theft way down. Fingerprint is the clear technical/cost biometric leader for the next few years.