First Search Login-- Clarification about security

[Thomas Dowling]

> Hmmm - just saw a show last week about the alien landing and coverup at 
> Roswell, N.M.  They showed a purported film taken of the space craft, and

> there was one of those hand press jobs, only for a six fingered hand. 
> Looked really hokey, but then a systems developer showed a prototype of 
> the control panel he was working on - bingo! the Back to the Future 
> model. Wonder if this is one of those "which came first" questions?

(Has the Fox network been carving up aliens again?  I'm trying to bite my
tongue re: Roswell--though I thought the story was the craft was destroyed
in the crash--but if we're talking science fiction this notion has been
around since at least The Andromeda Strain and possibly much earlier.)

I believe the current PC Magazine's new gadgetry column shows an index
finger scanner; as I recall the price was less than $500.  Of course,
you're on your own to get a current set of finger prints from you user
population.

All the comments I've seen about passwords are predicated on the notion
that a library will have a single user database, and that the database is
accessible to a CGI script.  For consortia with multiple user databases,
and for anyone whose user database is locked away inside a relatively
closed ILS, good luck.  

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