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Has this ever happened to you? You have not been to a website in some weeks and you simply can't remember the password and now you need to go back using your email and fish it out. Or, is the next step this major no no of security? Make use of the same username and password for each website and application you are able to.

digitalpersona

It's the perfect time you tried a password storing finger print reader. Basically all consumer finger print readers work the same; you put in the program and connect the fingerprint device. You then install the fingerprint reader into an available USB port, scan your finger (usually the right pointer finger), and now as you surf the web the program will ask you if you want to store the user id and password related to that website.

Now the fun part, when you visit that site again later on all that you should do is put your finger around the reader also it fills in those pesky user id and password fields for you personally. No need to ever forget or make use of the same password again.

So how performs this all work?

Before we start it's good to understand this technology exists because we all have our own uniquely identifiable piece of information, our finger marks. While our forerunners did not develop this adaptation for password protection, more for gripping and holding, it's a nice side effect. Since each set of fingerprints in developed in its own way through thousands if not countless environmental factors there's very little chance that anyone has, has ever had or is ever going to had exactly the same fingerprint as you; even if you are the same twin.

Now the fingerprint reader merely has to scan your finger and ensure all the ridges match, sounds easy right? Well, it does have a quite of bit of technology to really 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.

Then they "read" if how it is taking a look at is a ridge or valley and uses your computers processing power to compare the captured fingerprint using the fingerprints on file, from setup, in your system. They do this by using very complex algorithms and focusing in on the very fine parts of your actual fingerprint and comparing specific features called minutiae.

The scanner doesn't take your whole fingerprint into consideration when creating a match; it simply needs to find some parts that match both the minutiae and also the record of the print on file. When the threshold of matches is reached voila you can get that password protected page you wanted and also you didn't even need to consider it.