Fingerprint Locks

[aimeeandbeatles]

A couple of weeks ago, I read that some wealthy houses in south USA, instead of locks, have fingerprints. You swipe your finger over it to unlock the door.

You can put your kid's fingerprints in (no more lost keys), and if the housekeeper comes on Wedsndays from 11 am to 1 pm, you can program it to let her in during that time.

What do you think

 

[Sidhe]

They've been around for about 15 years. Used to have them where I worked, when I first saw them I thought my job was very mission impossible, but there a bit more commonplace these days. I like the idea, but like anything else as the technology advances, so does the ability to defeat it, it's a cat and mouse game, only your never sure who the cat is.

 

[dutchfire]

Mythbusters cracked the best fingerprint locks in a couple of hours.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

A couple of hours... the police would arrive by then!

 

[dutchfire]

A couple of hours... the police would arrive by then!

No, it took them a couple of hours to install the thing, extract someones fingerprint from a cd they touched, copy the fingerprint and open the lock.

 

[Tee Kay]

Well they're definitely more secure than combination locks.

But they're no match for the best career criminals that's for sure.

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
They are nowadays even on notebooks and other stuff...

Mythbusters cracked the best fingerprint locks in a couple of hours.

It seems an axe to the wall would be quicker, plus, you know, real thieves need to get that finger[rint somewhere and they cannot jsut walk to the door.

 

[Sidhe]

I remember that MythBusters? Did they do optical recognition(OR) as well?

I think the most secure places have a combination of methods, like OR and fingerprint as well as the best one: visual recognition confirmed by a recpetionist

Voice recognition is another one. I'm sure if you had some sort of comprehensive 3 point system, most criminals wouldn't bother. Mind you I bet it'd cost an absolute fortune.

Next one is DNA checking, quick prick of the finger and 30 secs later it's analaysed your blood and matched your DNA, that'd be a bit of a nightmare to crack, because you could test other factors in the blood like, amount of plasma(to detect how fresh it is) Blood type etc. I mean you could extract someones blood, but I'd like to see you do it without them noticing.

 

[Stylesrj]

Yes but the prick to the finger isn't good for haemophiliacs. I mean isn't it a single cut and they won't stop bleeding?

DNA testing would be nice, but the best lock systems are no match for a whack to the door with a heavy object. Unless the door was made of reinforced steel or had a better lock in them, criminals can still break through. In order for greatest security in a house, the door has to be strong, the windows have to be strong and the locks, well DNA testing seems to be the way to go, along with fingerprints, vision and voice, but you're not going to pay for all that, and most criminals wouldn't want to go to such lengths to bypass it unless they were spies or something taking secret documents or REALLY expensive valuables out of the rich guy's house...

 

[Rhymes]

Well they're definitely more secure than combination locks.

But they're no match for the best career criminals that's for sure.

But the best career criminals don't go stealing average joe's house.


And have any of you ever noticed how criminals don't often use the front door to get in.... So i think this is just putting efforts in the wrong place. Get unbreakable windows and then your in business.

 

[Kozmos]

The only decent lock is the one with a retinal scanner.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

The only decent lock is the one with a retinal scanner.

In the movies retinal scanners are easily tricked.


Or you can do as in the Minority Report and use the guys actual eye balls.

 

[Kozmos]

In the movies retinal scanners are easily tricked.


Or you can do as in the Minority Report and use the guys actual eye balls.

You cant just take someone's eye out. It decays quickly and is then rendered useless.

 

[Leonel]

I don't like the idea of fingerprint locks. Then a criminal that's so enclined to break into a house can simply cut your arm off Congo style and walk right in. I'd be more inclined to keep the key-that-isn't-also-a-part-of-my-body.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It seems an axe to the wall would be quicker, plus, you know, real thieves need to get that finger[rint somewhere and they cannot jsut walk to the door.

Yes, but if you do it the mythbusters way, you can repeatedly break in without the people knowing. If you "axe the door a question" it's a one-time deal, and then they up their security, which is great if you're in for a one-time deal, too; I guess it all depends on what you're breaking into and what for.

 

[Gladi]

Yes, but if you do it the mythbusters way, you can repeatedly break in without the people knowing. If you "axe the door a question" it's a one-time deal, and then they up their security, which is great if you're in for a one-time deal, too; I guess it all depends on what you're breaking into and what for.

Bah, with the building standards these days, you don't need to axe the door, you can break through the wall .

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Bah, with the building standards these days, you don't need to axe the door, you can break through the wall .

You're preaching to the choir, old chap.

 

[Mirc]

I've seen this, but only twice so far. Also I've been to one of the only two museums in the world of keys, locks and special doors, in Velbert, Germany. I love this, would replace my current keys with this anytime.