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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Saflink Corp. (ESAF) Biometric Software Provider -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Rogers who wrote (2591)	1/8/1998 11:31:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4676

An upstart in our midst. From Businessweek. CYBERSECURITY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS SOON YOU'LL BE ABLE TO KISS passwords good-bye. Your fingertip is all you'll need, thanks to a cheap fingerprint-reading system from Who Vision Systems Inc., a startup in Irvine, Calif. Its TactileSense technology essentially guarantees that only authorized persons can gain access to computers and networks. Yet it will cost just $25 to embed the fingertip reader in monitors and keyboards. Stand-alone fingerprint pads are expected to retail for $99. And prices might drop 50% with volume production, says Alexander G. Dickinson, founder of Who Vision and a former research manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories. The sensor pad is a stamp-size sheet of piezoelectric plastic--it turns pressure into light. Put your finger on it, and it generates a glowing image of your fingerprint on the underside. This image is digitized and encrypted before being sent to a host computer for validation, so the fingerprint itself doesn't float around a network, where it might be vulnerable to theft. Taiwan's Mag Technology Co., a leading maker of monitors, has signed on to produce 35 million pads for its own products and other manufacturers'. Look for the first fingerprint-savvy gadgets late this year. EDITED BY OTIS PORT