- Fingerprint
- Posted by Clarissa on February 25th, 2007
I bought a laptop (Toshiba) with no
instructions with it. There is a "fingerprint
swipe" thing on it and it says to logon to enroll
fingerprint. What does it do?
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- Posted by philo on February 25th, 2007
"Clarissa" <cfowler@revealed.net> wrote in message
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It's one of of those machines that can be setup to
log-on only by using the owner's fingerprint...
hopefully that feature was disabled when you bought it!
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- Posted by The Old Sourdough on February 25th, 2007
On 2007-02-25, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk, Clarissa waxed eloquently:
It sends your fingerprints to the FBI, MI5, Homeland Security,
the KGB, etc. If you're on one of their "lists", you'll be prohibited
from using the computer.
Just kidding! As philo says, it's used for identification.
Let's hope that it's disabled, or that the previous owner sent
his finger along with it. :-)
Read up on "Biometrics".
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If at first you don't succeed, the Hell with it
- Posted by Clarissa on February 26th, 2007
"The Old Sourdough" <senile@all.times> wrote in message
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Thanks-It is disabled (New computer but last onewithout
Vista) It was a demonstrater; and I won't put my fingers
on it. It keeps reminding me to activate it. CF
- Posted by Frosty on February 26th, 2007
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:41:53 -0600 in 24hoursupport.helpdesk
"Clarissa" <cfowler@revealed.net>, intended to write something
intelligible, but instead wrote :
Clarissa...I can smell your Toshiba.
