Re: Security eh?
Once you have the victim's biometric data is relatively easy to fool the systems but getting the biometric data initially may be a little more difficult.
I think I mentioned this on another article about biometric security for banking. The problem here is that while the bank *may* make it somewhat hard to steal the biometric details, others won't. This whole thing is a fad which is why that twat in the article was gushing over it. He's a salesman, it's a fucking retarded sales-gimmick.
So fast-forward a few years after "trendsetters" like HSBC et al start using this. The cost of incorporating biometric bullshit into websites will drop drastically and like online shopping carts there'll be hundreds of vendors offering them and millions of businesses using them. A lot of those vendors will put out products with shit security around the biometrics, and a lot of the companies using them will ignore what little advice they may get from the vendor.
So the clever hackers won't bother trying to get past HSBC's security (which may well be laughable anyway) they'll just go for the low-hanging fruit and crack the db on smaller site.
One of the main pieces of security advice out there is don't reuse passwords across sites, particularly not important ones. But now this gaggle of retards pushing biometrics-as-password are going to force everyone to use the same password everywhere. One which they can't hide very easily, can *never* change and undoubtedly *will* get cracked by someone and then spunked all over the net. Forever.
It's exactly this sort of gimmicky bullshit being pushed by spivs and conmen that is going to fuck everybody in the arse in a few years, but as long as these pricks can make a few quid now they'll happily piss in the well the rest of us have to drink from.