Biometrics: Security of the Future

One myth that Biometrics are new and unsafe. Biometrics in the modern world are as old as the use of a signature, or the attaching of a photo to a document. The safe and secure storage of your Biometrics should be no more concerning than providing your billing address information to the businesses you already trust with your personal details. Almost all identity theft today happens from traditional sources (for instance stealing or making a drivers license or passports) in fact Biometrics can act to help protect your identity. It'll be a lot harder in the future for an acrimonious relationship breakup to result in a partner creating havoc in your life because they know all your passwords or secret answers, and it'll also be a lot harder for criminals to take over your identity. Examples abound of the break-down of traditional identity systems based on name matching where the wrong people are detained, and sometimes even jailed because of a lack of other ways to establish identity.

As a college student, one of the biggest concerns around campus was the threat of your laptop being stolen. This was a big scare for me since I was a starving student and just saved up to get my first laptop. Once I worked so hard to get my new laptop, I was very protective of it.
There were rumors around campus that non college kids were coming to our campus and stealing laptops. I was so paranoid that in the library I had to pack up all my stuff to go the bathroom! And if your a college student you know how spread out you get when immersed in a dreaded 10 page paper.
Now I admit I went to college in a sum what of a bad area. In my first semester while I was being so paranoid about my laptop, my car was stolen. It was stolen right out my my parking space at the dorm. I was devastated! The kicker of it all was I had bought a Club for just this reason. Within 12 hours my car was actually recovered by police. It was a shadow of her former glory, the tires were taken and it was on blocks, everything down to the cigarette lighter was stripped and taken, the engine had also been running for 12 hours straight.
I decided that after all the chaos dies down I was going to look into better security. I had come across biometrics back then, in 2006 but it didn't seem reliable enough and it certainly wasn't in my budget. Yet I always kept track of biometrics.
So this year when my mother's mini cooper was stolen I jumped at the chance to tell her about how biometrics can help. Now my mom has biometric security for her car and laptop, my brother has biometric security for his laptop and opted to get flash drive to protect his artwork. I use any personal biometric security that I can get my hands on. And when I get a car worthy enough I be putting in biometric security for that too!
There are many theft stories just like mine, then there are cases where biometrics simplifies lives as well. Just read about Tipton Elementary School where their new high tech lunch lines prevent bullying and give time back to the teachers. (Link Below)