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Posted on October 1, 2007 at 3:33 pm

Upek Eikon: Fingerprint Scanner for Macs

Don’t really feel like I needed one…

Mac users tend to smile when they hear about Windows’ security issues. Whatever the reasons might be, OS X has proved to be a very secure computing platform, with a lack of viruses, and critical exploits usually getting shut down by Apple before any damage is done. Physical access, however, is another thing. If your computer isn’t locked down tight, anyone sitting at your Mac can do exactly what they like, from stealing your data to a scary rm -r in the command line.

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