PIN goodbye? From Japan to the proposal to use fingerprints instead of cash
In A revolution in the field of magnetic cards for payment? Apparently, yes, indeed it seems that the real news may be the same disappearance of the cards themselves, which will be replaced by codes biometrics such as fingerprints. The Hitachi promises an initiative undertaken by the ICT, and the news was picked up by major national news sources.
By the end of 2006, contains an article that appeared on the site TGCOM, Hitachi in Japan will install some special scanners able to permanently replace the secret codes of ATMs with the recognition of the veins of a finger.
innovation may be very suitable not only for professionals and consumers of the rising sun. The growing phenomenon of counterfeiting and appropriation of another's credentials (password or PIN) payment card unfortunately afflicts our country.
In 2005 alone, figures from the same article TGCOM, were recorded in Italy 266mila scams of this kind, through external interventions occurred in players ATM, replacing or altering the device for reading the magnetic stripe (Skinner).
The new device should be more Japanese accurate iris recognition and fingerprints and is expected to disable the skimmer, special miniature readers used to steal the data contained on magnetic stripes.
Skimmers are self-powered wireless equipment little larger than a pack of cigarettes that are applied to the slots of ATMs. In the market there are different kind and price, but to buy a device standard is sufficient about $ 300, and procedures to steal the digital identity of consumers are unfortunately well known to our readers.
However, the solutions proposed to avoid the phenomenon of "skimming" are manifold, as well as advanced dall'Hitaci. Being studied by Experts there would be many other ideas that range from the simply sending a text message to each sample a more complex face recognition to access the account. The Old Pin
thus seems destined to disappear? Maybe not, or rather, will most likely not only to protect our privacy, but it could still be used in conjunction with other authentication devices, such as another biometric device.
Source: http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/tgtech/articoli/articolo283874.shtml (15:00)
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