Biometric Password Managers

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:26 pm

Been wondering about these for a long time:

Biometric Password Manager

Exactly how safe and secure are these? I can see where they would be handy in a work office in keeping your stuff safe but can backdoors/trojans/hackers get into these? I guess what I'm getting too is exactly where does it store your passwords and what makes it so safe to supposedly store your passwords in such a unit? Wouldn't it just store it somewhere on your computer, compromising your safety and controdicting the very purpose of owning one?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:40 pm

here's a new word: encryption.

enjoy!

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:25 am

biometric security is easily bypassed. don't believe what you see on fictional tv shows.

i bet i could bypass that fingerprint scanner with any of these items:

- bluetack
- silly putty
- stickytape & a piece of paper.

i remember reading about how easy they were to bypass on dan's data. eg: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site% ... +biometric

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:30 am

here's my take on biometrics, apart from the easily bypassable thing (depending on your definition of easily)...

it takes me about 1/8 of a second to type in most of my passwords... while i have limited my self to left hand alpha, right hand numpad... i still feel 'relatively' secure that my passwords are safe enough for most things. an example of a password i used to use when i was with wells fargo (when i had to change them monthly)... qWer09 it's easy to type, meets most critea of security and was easy to switch the next month to qwE0r9... and the month after could be r0qe9w... etc etc ... works with qwer asdf zxcv easily enough to still hit shift...

is it hard to remember? nope... cause i use the same idea for all the passwords, and only have to think about 3 or 4 of them... do i feel the need to use biometrics? no.... because it seems like the time i would lose setting it up in my home and the time i would spend waiting for an optical scanner to recognize my finger each time... and the money i would spend on it would be worth nothing to me in terms of security.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:32 am

Hehe, I figured that. I was just curiouse about how easy these would be to bypass. But where is the data stored? Inside the unit?

I guess when one I see one of these on TV or on the shelf, I end up laughing because I can't imagine it being any safer at all if your system is networked. Sounds as though I am right on the money on this one.