Students Develop Fingerprint Authentication Device
Pretty soon internet users will be able to log into their accounts simply by using their fingertip. Students at Staten Island Technical High School developed a device that plugs into a computer’s USB port, stores passwords, and auto-fills them after reading the user fingerprint. Unlike online password keepers that use a master password to unlock the....
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