So I bought this microsoft finger print password reader
 

And it is the coolest thing I have ever used. Anything that asks for a logon and password and be put in this thing so all I have to do is touch it and I am logged in. :)

That's nice...I was wondering how cool that would actually be :)

Really simple...
Someone asked me what happens if it breaks. If it does, you just go back to filling in the logon and password by hand. And, it's only $50.

My wife has something like that, but you have to guess the spot that you need to touch. Once you find it, you're in. ;)

So far so good with this one. I have it set up for all my fingers. So anyone of them will work.

I picked up one of those wireless usb locks foer my computer a while back. It locks down when I walk away and is up and running by the time I sit at my keyboard. No password capability except for logging on to windows but it keeps prying eyes off of my stuff pretty nicely. I never have to worry about my kids accidently seeing anything. A great $20 investment!

Biometrics scare me and I can`t feel good helping thier evolution. Can you say Gattica?

Now someone is going to cut of your finger so that they can access your stuff.

On my Mac once I login to the computer with my master admin password all my other passwords are unlocked, no finger needed. I can then lock the account with one click or have it set to lock after any amount of time.

I hope not...my safe is the same way. No matter what I did, I could not keep my son out of my Sentry safe. So I bought a finger print reading Brinks safe. No breaking into that.

They have a finger reader at the tanning solon that I go to once in awhile. It always seems like it doesn't read my finger if I don't go for a few months. I asked them once what they would do with someone with no fingers and they said that they would have to use their nose. lol

I see that there is software now that lets you use an iPod as a key like you do with the usb things.

ballistic gelatin has many uses if you can obtain a relief of someone's fingerprint.

Cool stuff? How much does it cost anyway?

Does it save password and usernames somewhere? Meaning, if you had to reinstall the OS, could you restore all your login info?

I've used RoboForm for a while now and it's the bomb. It would be nice to have the fingerprint built into a laptop though.

You know MS is collecting your shit to plot evil against you, right? :D

I'm surprised Cleo didn't tell you.

You all using Winblows just gives me a competitive edge. :D

Really? You have kept so quiet about your advantage, I'd hardly know what it was. ;)

They have fingerprint readers for the Mac too so I really didn't see this as a Mac versus PC thing or anything like that. I just don't see why having something on your laptop that enters your passwords for you by having to rub a finger is any better then having an app on your drive that you enter your master password in once per login is better. It seems like more of a hassle to me actually.

You asked what happens in you move to another computer. Not sure about the finger reader thing but my laptop users a ling called keychain and it stores its database in ~/Library/keychains/keychainname so it moves with your home directory.

I do think that Macs have an advantage now that they are *nix based. Right now I've got Imageready processing files. Rsync creating a mirror of FoxyAngel to a local disk image, and a ton of other crap going on.

Processes: 73 total, 3 running, 70 sleeping... 251 threads 10:35:17
Load Avg: 2.18, 2.06, 1.78 CPU usage: 44.0% user, 26.1% sys, 29.9% idle
SharedLibs: num = 199, resident = 42.7M code, 4.81M data, 7.18M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 11738, resident = 449M + 13.8M private, 205M shared
PhysMem: 104M wired, 427M active, 450M inactive, 982M used, 41.8M free
VM: 9.73G + 130M 64361(0) pageins, 18211(0) pageouts

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
530 top 11.7% 0:01.25 1 18 22 848K 384K 1.27M 26.9M
528 bash 0.0% 0:00.01 1 14 16 196K 740K 840K 27.1M
523 Stickies 0.0% 0:01.10 1 77 170 3.01M 15.2M 7.72M 229M
520 mdimport 0.0% 0:01.14 4 66 61 1.80M 7.53M 4.91M 44.6M
470 Safari 0.0% 8:29.66 7 162 771 75.7M 30.1M 102M 302M
430 Adobe GoLi 1.7% 3:39.54 2 100 505 76.3M 48.6M 108M 394M
415 mozilla-bi 21.9% 27:32.43 10 204 461 22.6M 31.4M 42.2M 433M
404 Adobe Imag 3.3% 5:56.69 5 117 434 21.2M 33.6M 46.6M 297M
389 rsync 2.6% 1:33.00 1 9 102 420K 21.3M 2.91M 48.7M
388 AppleSpell 0.0% 0:00.71 1 61 34 744K 2.13M 1.92M 37.7M
387 ssh 1.3% 2:34.30 1 22 33 1.08M 904K 1.65M 27.8M
386 rsync 0.0% 0:09.48 1 14 100 132K 21.3M 21.4M 48.4M
383 hdiejectd 0.0% 0:00.07 1 32 26 216K 716K 916K 27.1M
375 Internet E 0.6% 10:21.20 9 245 323 29.5M 28.4M 45.3M 277M
358 BBEdit 0.0% 0:04.09 2 83 212 5.63M 19.2M 12.7M 234M
347 LiveDictio 0.0% 0:01.41 1 79 171 3.00M 13.4M 4.85M 244M
345 bash 0.0% 0:00.02 1 14 16 112K 740K 772K 27.1M
340 Terminal 9.4% 7:16.32 7 109 183 12.7M+ 20.4M 19.9M+ 242M
339 Address Bo 0.0% 0:01.98 1 98 148 4.25M 12.8M 7.14M 223M
338 iCal 0.0% 0:13.91 5 119 342 13.4M 16.0M 18.1M 247M
337 CopyPaste- 0.3% 0:34.66 1 74 104 3.32M 12.6M 5.27M 218M
334 ICQ 3.4 0.8% 1:50.39 8 174 196 4.95M 18.8M 9.80M 234M
332 Mail 0.0% 0:32.08 6 158 297 11.4M 23.5M 18.8M 241M
331 Spell Catc 0.0% 0:00.27 1 63 85 872K 2.29M 2.19M 198M
328 Spell Catc 0.0% 0:06.69 3 161 271 6.33M 13.9M 10.7M 224M
321 Spell Catc 0.0% 0:26.27 2 118 133 2.46M 13.6M 4.83M 219M
314 MouseWorks 0.1% 0:19.01 1 65 98 1.14M 10.7M 2.62M 210M
309 Extensis S 0.5% 1:49.42 2 114 162 16.7M 14.0M 20.0M 239M
308 AirClick 0.0% 0:01.85 1 95 140 2.63M 11.7M 4.98M 214M
307 iTunesHelp 0.0% 0:00.21 1 54 67 640K 4.11M 1.74M 203M
306 iCalAlarmS 0.0% 0:00.48 1 65 87 1.01M 10.1M 2.70M 209M
294 Finder 0.0% 0:27.66 6 217 273 8.01M 19.1M 12.7M 247M
292 SystemUISe 0.0% 0:52.21 6 258 315 65.6M 14.6M 66.8M 299M
290 Dock 0.0% 0:09.21 2 150 208 3.45M 22.1M 14.0M 233M
283 pbs 0.0% 0:00.87 2 41 39 1.04M 8.01M 2.13M 59.3M
231 automount 0.0% 0:00.22 3 41 29 240K 820K 688K 28.7M

It's been many years since I've had to restart due to a crash or something like that. Macs just work. :D

Hmm, I have a password finger print, umm...okay no I don't, but I write my passwords down on my hand...does that count?

It saves them locally :)

So you can just plug the fingerprint thing into any computer and it autofill your passwords on that machine too?

Does it work with all your apps or just IE?