Starcraft 2 - worth buying?

[--Pete]

Hi,

Biometric dual key encryption embedded at point of sale.

I went in for a pulmonary function test two weeks ago. For a while, it looked like the test was not going to happen. In their overzealous desire to protect patient information, the SCCA has started to use biometric sensors. I guess they work when they work. For 20 minutes, this one didn't.

Also, what are you going to do when your kids want to play your games and you need to be elsewhere? Leave them your thumb?

I think we'd see it on car, or home locks first.

I hope not. Mythbusters did a segment on that. Stealing someone's fingerprint was amazingly easy. Other bio id is either too much of a problem (retina scans) or too variable (skin temperature, resistivity, etc.)

It still won't stop Warez pirates from decrypting and distributing in an unencrypted form. But, when the common media players are expecting a particular format (e.g. Blu-ray) then, it becomes awkward to have raw MPEG4.

Right. So, we get to put up with the inefficient crap to stop us from doing what we weren't doing in the first place, and those that need stopping aren't even going to be slowed. Good plan.

Besides, a properly cracked item works the same as and is easier to use than the original

I am surprised by how many laptops have built in biometric inputs now. At the last consulting gig I had, my laptop's hard drive was encrypted needing my fingerprint to enable sign-on, as well as a key fob PIN generator synchronized to a server. You have to tack the PIN to the end of your PW to get access to the network. But, information security is all moot if you have a Bradley Manning in your organization.

The number of times my fingerprints were altered beyond recognition from burns, cuts, scrapes, and leaving them super-glued to a surface is beyond my count. Can I get time off, with pay, if the machine won't let me log on?

--Pete