Internal security of Rev?

[John Tregea]

I thought of combining the U3 drive with a thumb print reader (also USB) 
to make for three factor authentication.

1. password
2. thumb print
3. presence of U3 drive (serialised)

I am hoping to find a USB thumb drive manufacturer that makes metal 
encased drives and supports U3. (Dreamer)

Cheers

John

Kay C Lan wrote:
>> On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:50 PM, John Tregea wrote:
>
>> > The users will have one U3 enabled USB thumb drive per licensed
>> > client and the user application will be programmed to only run on
>> > the serial numbered, unique thumb drive.
>
> On 7/14/06, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> replied:
>> Cool!  I suppose users should keep up with those as they would keep
>> close tabs on a badge.  But the drive might get stolen and the user
>> might be a bad guy.
>
> And a possible surprise.
>
> My brother works for a firm that sell/contract/train software for
> ballistic prices - $100,000+ for the full package. The software is
> licensed with a dongle. Since Noah these have been parallel port
> dongles, but with some PCs coming out these days without parallel
> ports they've had some pesky users demand USB dongles. After a bit of
> fussing the company eventually bit the bullet and produced USB
> dongles.
>
> In the last financial year it was noted that the revenue figures were
> up, better than expected. After a little analysis of the number the
> reason revealed itself. Although 'users' had occasionally lost their
> parallel dongles,  the USB dongles proved at lot easier to loose!
>
> As my brother would say to some poor sap who would be trying to get a
> new dongle without paying for a whole new license fee would say: "Go
> into Harry Winston's and tell them your wife lost her $80,000 diamond
> ring and that you'd like a free replacement"
>
> I believe the R&D dept are now feverishly working on making the
> smallest USB Dongle known to man;-)
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