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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
No, it was being offered as a replacement, as user-based rather than device-based DRM. Steve was suggesting a fingerprint check instead of the current PID-based encryption for DRM'd ebooks.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Your laptop is fingerprint-locked for your benefit; ebooks are DRM'd for the seller's benefit. You have the choice of handing your password to anyone you feel comfortable accessing your laptop. They don't want to switch to a password-opens-this-book method; that allows more sharing than they want to allow.
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Whoever's benefit it is, it remains that fingerprint-secured digital files could be very secure. If the fingerprint data is encrypted into the file upon purchasing, the user would have to use their finger-swipe to open the file. To make the entire system secure, devices designed to read the file would require a protocol designed to refuse to open a file without fingerprint encryption (or a code authorizing anyone to open it without fingerprint data).
Logistically, there is nothing preventing such a system to be applied given today's technology.