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Views on Information Security from the guy who brought you ye olde PhoneBoy FireWall-1 FAQ

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Fooling Fingerprint Scanners

I know that fingerprints are not exactly foolproof methods of authentication because they are fairly easy to spoof. 

Bottom line, folks: if you want to be safe, you need to rely on more than one factor of authentication.

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Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy

Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy, widely known as “PhoneBoy”, is the guy behind the old PhoneBoy FireWall-1 FAQ that thousands of Check Point customers used back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He is also the author of Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG: An Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Guide and has nearly two decades of experience in IT and Information Security.

PhoneBoy is currently a Security Architect for Check Point Software Technologies. He provides security architecture design and consults on product integration for Check Point’s sales teams worldwide. He also, on occasion, blogs his own thoughts on Information Security here.

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