I'll pass...
Posted on 03/12/2013 1:24:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
Don’t use Google! It’s a spy agency! I sent an email to a friend talking about his getting an emergency generator for his home. 15 minutes later I sent another email, and there were ads for generators on the right side of the page.
Use this search engine, which doesn’t track your id, ip, and no cookies;
Better than rectum scans.
All your password belong to us!
Rectum?
There’s already little thumb print readers that do the same thing. It doesn’t really replace your passwords so much as enter them for you.
No mugger has ever stolen people’s rings, of course. </S>
It probably is actually. Probably it’s just a RFID, the actual USB part is a RFID reader that detects you have the appropriate RFID.
As for not losing it, well that’s on you.
““Everyone is familiar with an ATM. What if you could use the same experience with a computer?” “
ATMs are a pain in the ass to use!
I won’t wear a ring and don’t want to carry any hardware, keys in my pocket are bad enough.
Wow, a magic decoder ring for real! The ones I used to send in cereal box tops for always turned out to be lame.
With a retinal scan, you press your eye against the scanner.
With a a rectal scan, you press your ... well you get the idea.
The next time you see someone missing a finger it will be some idiot that fell for Google’s ring and the thief cut off their finger to get their ring!
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What ding-a-ling thought this one up??
The people at Google have obviously never worked around machinery.
Still a stupid idea.
Thieves will be able to rip your RFID code off your ring; they already have problems with that with RFID credit cards. You have carry them in metal wallets to protect them from readers.
Anything readable WILL be ripped off by today’s hackers and thieves.
Oh, my no. We have a particularly stubborn vendor who insisted on using it after I'd replaced the servers it used to attach to. Ever try to find a parallel card that will fit a blade server? They finally - and grudgingly - came up with a "newfangled" USB key that had to be reseated at every reboot. We're now on an open-source competitor. Sheesh.
It’s not really a big deal. The fact is the reader will be connected to your computer, if thieves have gotten access to your computer already they don’t need the ring. They can just take the computer and use any of the million ways to get around/ learn your passwords at their leisure.
Sounds great, until Frodo-like amputations start to show up as a common crime MO.
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