User:BrunetteBeltz670
Has this ever became of you? You have not visited an internet site in a few weeks and you simply cannot remember the password and now you need to go back using your email and fish it. Or, do you do this major no no of security? Use the same password for every website and application you are able to.
It's the perfect time you tried your password storing finger print reader. Basically all consumer finger print readers work exactly the same; you install the program and connect the fingerprint device. You then install the fingerprint reader into an available USB port, scan your finger (normally the right pointer finger), and today as you surf the web the software asks you if you wish to store the user id and password associated with that site.
Now the fun part, once you visit that site again later on all that you should do is place your finger on the reader and it fills in those pesky user id and password fields for you. No need to ever forget or use the same password again.
Just how performs this all work?
Before we begin it is good to understand that this technology exists because we all have our own uniquely identifiable bit of information, our finger prints. While our forerunners didn't develop this adaptation for password protection, more for gripping and holding, it is a nice side effect. Since each set of fingerprints in coded in its very own way through thousands if not millions of environmental factors there's very little chance that anyone has, has ever endured or will ever had exactly the same fingerprint while you; even if you are an identical twin.
So now the fingerprint reader just has to scan your finger and ensure all of the ridges match, sounds easy right? Well, it does have a quite of bit of technology to actually have great results. First the scanner uses either an optical or capacitance scanner to take a "picture" of your finger using either light or electricity respectably.
They then "read" if what it's taking a look at is a ridge or valley and uses your computers processing power to compare the captured fingerprint with the fingerprints on file, from setup, in your body. They do this by utilizing very complex algorithms and focusing in on the very fine areas of your actual fingerprint and comparing specific features called minutiae.
The scanner doesn't take your whole fingerprint into account when making a match; it simply has to have some parts that match both minutiae and the record of the print on file. When the threshold of matches is reached voila you have access to that password protected page you wanted and you didn't even have to think about it.
