So the Wife picks up a new I-phone. She comes to me and wants to include me in the security protocols, so I can help to un-lock the phone. The phone takes your fingerprint! Its just one finger, but stilll I think; would Don Carlo Gambino ever do this? I think about the Arlo Guthrie song Alice's Restaurant; where the guy is at the army draft board says: " We don't like your kind and we're going to send your fingerprints down to Washington " I'm a rotary dial phone / typewriter / black & white TV generation guy. Is this a wise thing to do?
biometrics is a great way to generate secure encryption keys. the trouble with encryption or any other privilaged access system is storing these passphrases in a safe way. iris scans are better than fingerprints because fingerprints can be lifted from surfaces and used to gain unauthorized access.
Your post reminded me of this Joe Walsh song, lol. "Analog man in a digital world Welcome to cyberspace, I'm lost in the fog Everything's digital I'm still analog" I'm the same way....the fingerprint thing would not be cool. I have a smart phone, but don't use it as computer, just a phone and the locations services are even turned off.
I got the latest iPhone and I thought it was funny that the guy that was helping me buy the cellphone and get set up with a plan, just set up the fingerprint password for me without asking me if I wanted that option. I thought to myself, "Oh, there goes 'Big Brother' again". And then I thought, "Would my deformed thumb even be able to be printed?" Before I was finished with those two thoughts, the guy already had set everything up. It's a whatever feature. I don't love or hate it, don't like or dislike it. And I don't care whether or not this is another attempt at fascism or some other brainwashing. Though, I don't think it is. It's just a cellphone to me. I have already dropped it twice and touched it with very dirty hands. So, whatever.
I have to keep calibrating my setting. Turns out maybe my fingerprints deplete and regenerate as new prints cause they stop working after a week.
Ha. It took the guy two attemps at getting my print. My thumbs are just weird. I didn't even realized I had weird looking thumbs until I was in like third grade. I was playing that game where you put your head down, cover it with your arms, and stick your thumb up. Then someone else will get up, thumb it down and run back to their seat. Then you have to figure out who did it. Anyways, some kid started screaming and saying "Ew, look at her thumb! It's looks weird! I'm not touching that!" All the students pulled their head up, including myself. Lucky for my childhood, the kid was standing in front of me and pointing at me. And there goes the story of finding out that I got some weird looking thumbs. But, the mother fuckers work, so whatever. Okay, I can't switch on a lighter. I have to use a clicker lighter when I smoke weed, but I can destroy anyone at Thumb War. So, it's whatever.
i think my phone had that option. there may have been a voice recognition option too, i don't remember exactly. either way, they left it completely free of security when i bought it, and i went in and set it to do the pattern passcode thing just because i don't want just anyone to be able to access it, while on the other hand i don't want it to be too complicated to get in to. you could probably start a lighter with your index fingers. it's not as simple as a regular thumb, but it definitely works; i've done it back during my gamer years when i had rubbed the skin off my thumbs on my playstation controller.
Me too. Well, at first it was like that. So many calls have been missed. So many "Fuck you, phone... I will rub you against my ass if you don't work" has been said. But, like all things... I got used to it. Only once in awhile does it not work and I spend another second or so punching in my password. Nowadays, the whole process of getting 'finger blocked to punching in' is a quick one, though. So, I don't miss calls or whatever. The brain is one amazing thing, even mine.
I'll try it. It would make life a little more convenient because I can't find as many clicker lighters as I can regular lighters. It's like no one cares about the disabled anymore.
The only thing that creeps me out more than Apple are all the iLemmings that line up to gobble up every iTurd that falls out of it's iAss. It's like a cult of iConformity to the big iBrother, I'll wake up one morning ruled under a new iGovernment and be force fitted with an iCollar. But at least it will play my music, for only 99 cents a track...
