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IDENTIFIER-BASED SYSTEM [1 record]

Record 1 1993-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

A personal representative could ... recognize its owner by methods that most people would consider unreasonably intrusive in an identifier-based system; a notebook computer, for example, might verify its owner's voice or even fingerprints.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Les représentants pourraient (...) reconnaître leur propriétaire par des méthodes que la plupart d'entre nous considéreraient intolérables si elles étaient pratiquées dans des systèmes reposant sur des méthodes classiques d'identification: par exemple, un ordinateur portatif pourrait identifier la voix de son propriétaire ou ses empreintes digitales.

Spanish

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