Comments on: SA banks to turn to fingerprints for security http://www.techcentral.co.za/sa-banks-to-turn-to-fingerprints-for-security/13389/ South Africa's quality technology news source Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg http://www.techcentral.co.za/sa-banks-to-turn-to-fingerprints-for-security/13389/comment-page-1/#comment-4742 Greg Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:37:19 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=13389#comment-4742 @Anonymous Coward: well done, you get bad idea of the year! No fuss apart from having to shut down what you're doing to reboot, do your banking, then reboot again and keep working. No malware apart from the one which someone put on the replacement liveCD they swapped out while someone wasn't looking. @Anonymous Coward: well done, you get bad idea of the year! No fuss apart from having to shut down what you’re doing to reboot, do your banking, then reboot again and keep working. No malware apart from the one which someone put on the replacement liveCD they swapped out while someone wasn’t looking.

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://www.techcentral.co.za/sa-banks-to-turn-to-fingerprints-for-security/13389/comment-page-1/#comment-4740 Anonymous Coward Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:26:07 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=13389#comment-4740 And who will have to purchase the fingerprint scanners? The customer? The bank? And who will have to purchase the fingerprint scanners? The customer? The bank?

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://www.techcentral.co.za/sa-banks-to-turn-to-fingerprints-for-security/13389/comment-page-1/#comment-4739 Anonymous Coward Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:20:50 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=13389#comment-4739 Won't work as malware will be written to bypass this level of security. A good option would be to give each customer a customized version of a live Knoppix CD with which online banking be done. Simply boot from the CD, do your banking, and remove the CD afterwards. No fuss, no mess. No malware, pesky viruses or trojans waiting to intercept any security tokens. Won’t work as malware will be written to bypass this level of security.

A good option would be to give each customer a customized version of a live Knoppix CD with which online banking be done.

Simply boot from the CD, do your banking, and remove the CD afterwards. No fuss, no mess. No malware, pesky viruses or trojans waiting to intercept any security tokens.

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