Tired of having to remember all your passwords? Relief may soon be on its way thanks to Intel and Qualcomm, who are developing new biometric technology that will allow you yourself to be the password.
Full article at The New York Times
"Qualcomm, one of the two chip makers, is expected to say it has
developed a kind of sonarbased way to read fingerprints through glass,
plastic, and some metal. That is a dramatic improvement over most popular
fingerprint authentication methods. The sensor can be placed on either side of
a mobile phone, and by reading deep into the skin, noting the difference
between the peak and trough of a fingerprint, should be harder to defeat.
“You can’t use glue to make a spoof fingerprint,” said Tim McDonough,
vice president for product marketing at Qualcomm."