IBM Thinkpad's fingerprint scanner

[Alex Povolotsky]

Remko Lodder wrote:
> Not taking into account that fingerprints can easily be
> spoofed within 10 minutes (And with high reliability),
> as seen on the what the hack conference last year.
>
> Using ssh with a pub/private key is much safer, so i hope
> you are not using this as a security measure...

Sounds reasonable; however, it's a measure for LOCAL access. Anyone can 
detach notebook and carry it away within 10 minutes and with high 
reliability. And it's cool after all ;)

Alex.