As if Microsoft doesn't have enough private info on it's users!

Barbarian · Sat 11/09/2004 06:25:41

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/09/09/microsoft.hardware.reut/index.html

Big Brother Microsoft takes yet more steps to invade and spy on your privacyÃ,Â :o

QuoteMicrosoft says its new hardware is more for convenience

Yeah, convenient to spy on what you're doing on your computer

OKay okay, I been using Windows OS for years now, and for the most part I'm happy with using it... but still, it's a bit of an eye-opener to see and think about how more advances in technology such as this "Fingerprint Reader" Microsoft is introducing with it's hardware/software could possibly be used to further spy on the typical computer user and when/what/where they are doing on thier computers. Yes, in some ways I can see how it could be used for "security" reasons, but I also imagine how it could be exploited in other ways as well.

DGMacphee · Sat 11/09/2004 07:07:37

That keyboard is useless. You could just cut off a guy's hand with a butcher's knife and use that.

MrColossal · Sat 11/09/2004 07:11:41

I'll even lend you the butcher knife!

shbaz · Sat 11/09/2004 07:38:25

It's been proven that simple jello-like moldings can defeat fingerprint readers as well. I thought about coating my finger with a fake print when I renewed my drivers license, because I don't like being subjected to that kind of scrutiny (the chance of my prints matching with some crime and having to defend myself against the guilty until proven innocent system). Unfortunately, the chances of that working are extremely slim so I just cut off another guys hand while the clerk wasn't looking.

DGMacphee · Sat 11/09/2004 07:43:51

I'm selling these fine hax0ring devices for Microsoft keyboards...

Available now from Mappomedia Industries!

Cpt_Jigglypuff · Sat 11/09/2004 07:45:16

What if you're an amputee?? and you don't have fingertips??? what happens then? you just can't use the keyboard?....friggin discriminative bastards!!!!!

DGMacphee · Sat 11/09/2004 07:49:35

Right now there's hundreds of angry amputees raising their arms in protest... err... if they had any...

shbaz · Sat 11/09/2004 07:58:15

Toes man, Toes.

And if they don't have legs either, then WTF are they doing with a computer and how did they get the money?

Cpt_Jigglypuff · Sat 11/09/2004 08:03:17

who the **** takes toeprints?? hehe toeprints would be funny cuz then police would have to smell criminal's stinky toe fungus....HAHA...maybe that's why they do fingers...?

DGMacphee · Sat 11/09/2004 08:23:35

I can just see Detective Goren dusting a crime scene for toeprints!

Excuse me. Excuse me. Are these YOUR toe prints on this keyboard? Cause I'm pretty sure.. I can see.. YOUR toeprints on this keyboard!

Mr Jake · Sat 11/09/2004 08:25:14

another possibly serious thread feels the wrath of DGMacphee

edit: thought Id better add one of these before I get flamed by someone

Barbarian · Sat 11/09/2004 08:42:14

Hehehe.. You guyz are frikkin' halarious..Ã,Â

Oh, and DG, can you send me one of those "fine hax0ring devices" you mention.Ã,Â Ã,Â

Pet Terry · Sat 11/09/2004 11:26:04

If you have ever watched MacGyver, you'll know how to get past the fingerprint reader if it needs another person's fingerprints.

Mr Jake · Sat 11/09/2004 12:28:16

using some bamboo a coconut and some stones?

Punch · Sat 11/09/2004 15:13:04

Psh. Only if you want to make it easy on yourself.

I think the fingerprint scanner is a kind of cool idea, no more logins at uni, just whack your finger on the keyboard and it does it for you. Think about it, it could save me a grand total of half a second every single time I log on. That'll add up eventually. After a while I'll have a whole day with nothing to do because I've saved so much time by not typing in a user name.

DragonRose · Sat 11/09/2004 16:15:49

A friend of mine usually doesn't have fingerprints. She makes miniature wooden toys (we're talking so small you can hold them on your fingertips) and constant use of sandpaper and solvents wears her fingerprints away. When she immigrated to Canada from South America, they almost didn't let her in because they couldn't take her prints.

So using one of these keyboards would be a royal pain in the rear for her.

DG: The Law and Order reference filled me with joy. Huzzah to you, good sir!

shbaz · Sat 11/09/2004 19:40:28

Quote from: DragonRose on Sat 11/09/2004 16:15:49
A friend of mine usually doesn't have fingerprints. She makes miniature wooden toys (we're talking so small you can hold them on your fingertips) and constant use of sandpaper and solvents wears her fingerprints away.

No, she was probably brewing moonshine. Capone had the same result.

DragonRose · Sun 12/09/2004 02:47:56

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sat 11/09/2004 19:40:28
No, she was probably brewing moonshine. Capone had the same result.

Argh! You has discovered teh deep dark sekrit! She is teh gangstar!

Gilbert · Mon 13/09/2004 02:09:09

Heh I think if fingerprints won't work they'll release also taste bud readers, that is, unless you are one of those poor souls who don't have any tongue!