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Originally Posted by Penforhire
In the case of your 12 year old daughter, assuming her prints changed enough to make the scanner reject her all she'd have to do is go back to an original passord and re-enter her current fingerprints. Same for adding you as a second or third user's prints. Same if you somehow delete your fingerprints. Easy peasy. Keep in mind that we are talking about an alternate identity verication system.
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What would stop people from sharing their ebook password with their 50 billion Faceache friends? Surely to make it secure you would need to incorporate some form of DNA testing as well as fingerprint/password.
Maybe each ebook reader could have something like diabetics use to test their blood, and then compare the readings with a central DNA database that stores everyone's DNA profile.
But then people might start sending each other blood samples through the post, so obviously there would need to be some additional form of security to counter that. Maybe some sort of facial recognition software using a camera built into the front of the ebook reader. That would also stop people from handing the reader to someone else after they have authorised a book.