[lug] Yubikey

[Nate Duehr]

  On 10/13/2010 11:49 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> >  My Lenovo laptop has a fingerprint reader, but it's been proven to be
>> >  weak sauce and easily tricked via various methods.
> well, I have heard a number of people claim this based on things like
> the mythbusters finger imprint stuff and the like. The problem is that
> the fingerprint readers on laptops are a swipe type, not a press flat
> type, and many of those attacks do not work or apply there.
>
> Not that I am saying that they are super secure, just that they are not
> really subject to the latex/gel attacks.;)

I thought I saw a YouTube video of one being defeated with a photocopy 
of a fingerprint a while back... now I can't find it.  (Argh.)

Nate