Soto, Government Computer News. Call me paranoid, but I'm in good company. Most biometric security programs -- which identify a person through their biological traits -- store details about a user's unique physical characteristics on a hard drive, and Robert Flores, . . .
Soto, Government Computer News. Call me paranoid, but I'm in good company. Most biometric security programs -- which identify a person through their biological traits -- store details about a user's unique physical characteristics on a hard drive, and Robert Flores, the CIA's chief technology officer, says it's easy enough for a hacker to get at the data.

When I quoted Flores's statement to the five biometric vendors in this review, four of them either changed the subject or essentially said, "Well, nothing is foolproof." The representative of one company, Net Nanny Software Inc., not only agreed with Flores but also said that vulnerability is what makes the company's BioPassword effective.

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