Today I had an incident with biometrics that further convinces me that they are not the end-all be-all of security.
Today I had to head up to our datacenter to do some nebulous "things". Like you do. Since we colo at a large facility that has all of those security certifications, getting into it is something of a trial but a familiar one. Hand scans, double-layered man-trap, the whole deal.
Only, the hand-scanner on the cage our racks are in wouldn't read my hand today. It took 19 tries before it decided I was me. To get this far I had to pass four other hand-scaners and only had to re-enter three times along the way. When I went back to the security station to see WTF, they had me re-scan my hand. Leaning over I saw that I had managed to fill their live-log of entry/exit events with red events, and they didn't seem phased in the least.
I've had some trouble with this particular hand-scanner before, enough that I dread leaving the cage. For what ever reason, this particular scanner is far enough out of spec that the fuzzy results it returns are fuzzier than their system will accept. Since it's on a rack cage rather than the higher trafficked man-trap scanners, it hasn't been caught out and re-tuned (or something). But still, I hate that thing.
Today I had to head up to our datacenter to do some nebulous "things". Like you do. Since we colo at a large facility that has all of those security certifications, getting into it is something of a trial but a familiar one. Hand scans, double-layered man-trap, the whole deal.
Only, the hand-scanner on the cage our racks are in wouldn't read my hand today. It took 19 tries before it decided I was me. To get this far I had to pass four other hand-scaners and only had to re-enter three times along the way. When I went back to the security station to see WTF, they had me re-scan my hand. Leaning over I saw that I had managed to fill their live-log of entry/exit events with red events, and they didn't seem phased in the least.
I've had some trouble with this particular hand-scanner before, enough that I dread leaving the cage. For what ever reason, this particular scanner is far enough out of spec that the fuzzy results it returns are fuzzier than their system will accept. Since it's on a rack cage rather than the higher trafficked man-trap scanners, it hasn't been caught out and re-tuned (or something). But still, I hate that thing.