The physical access to our company's entire data centre will soon be controlled by a biometric system. Curious that we should be willing to trust physical access to biometrics, but...

It's a time clock. People punch in...

I know what deterministic means.

So what you're saying is that you're an industry insider who knows that there's a huge security flaw in the product your company sells, and you're...

Actually, fingerprints are done as vector graphics, essentially. They work on points on curves, which are mathematically described, not on bitmapping (like a JPG). At least, the applications...

Fingerprints are non-deterministic passwords.

The hash of the string "Spongebob"...

the fingerprint software must have saved an unencrypted version of the key material (i.e. your password) somewhere in order to present it to the OS and log you in when...

Fingerprint security on a laptop is relative to the value of whatever data is on the laptop. It is perfect security for a laptop that contains nothing of significant...

Dictionary words aren't as secure as you make them out to be. A dictionary word has far less entropy than a random sequence of characters, hence the concept of...

I used the password safe in the past, but became spooked by the idea that anyone who puts a keylogger on my machine would be able to acquire every single...

I am clearly a latecomer to this thread, but there is one vital thing that needs to be considered as well. Does the disk subsystem use disk mirroring? ...

To me, parts of several answers would make sense.

IF this happened to me, I would first restore the whole database appending _old, and then restore the transaction logs to just...