Re: This is why...
Sorry, fingerprint *what*?
There's a perfectly valid use for fingerprint sensors (I used to work at a company that made some very good ones - albeit fairly expensive). One of their modes was to be used in conjunction with an RFID card that stored a hash of your fingerprint (one that couldn't be reverse-engineered into the fingerprint) and then compared the scan with that hash.
The main problem it had was when things were very cold and fingers were very pale and shrivelled - since it checked that the finger was living (I don't have a clue how) it sometimes rejected the scan if your fingers were too cold.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
