<div dir="ltr">Just thought I would give some recognition to Dave for bringing an information security issue to national attention, and thence to the Senate. It was quite wonderful hearing Dave's words coming from a Senator's mouth (or at least, from his press machine).<div>
<br></div><div>"...[T]here are two important reasons why biometrics won't work, and why the old-fashioned password is still a better option: a person's biometrics can't be kept secret and they can't be revoked...Since a person can't change their fingerprint or whatever biometric is being relied upon, it's 'once owned, forever owned.' That is biometrics' major failing and the one that will be hardest to overcome." - Dave Aitel, USAToday, 12 September 2013 (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/09/12/why-biometrics-dont-work/2802095/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/09/12/why-biometrics-dont-work/2802095/</a>)<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"Passwords are secret and dynamic; fingerprints are public and permanent. If you don't tell anyone your password, no one will know what it is. If someone hacks your password, you can change it—as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret. What's more, a password doesn't uniquely identify its owner—a fingerprint does. Let me put it this way: if hackers get a hold of your thumbprint, they could use it to identify and impersonate you for the rest of your life." - Al Franken in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on 20 September 2013 (<a href="http://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2562">http://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2562</a>)<br>
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