Will biometric security harm users?


Prompted by a warning about the security of certain products issued by Microsoft, VNUnet’s Alistair Dabbs asks:
Will biometric security harm users?. He’s concerned about biometric security on consumer and business products, but the same arguments apply much more strongly to huge, heavily-used systems such as that proposed for UK ID control.

Yet many people persist in believing that biometric access can be relied upon for security. Biometric data, I am told, is secure because it is “locked” to your body, while passwords can be acquired from you in underhand ways. The word “locked” is misleading, though. A determined hacker will always find a way, giving rise to some scary scenarios.