shows is Fox Network’s ‘24′. For those of you not familiar with the show,
the lead character, Jack Bauer (played by Kiefer Sutherland) is a Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent out to save the United States from the evils of terrorist conspiracies. Well, at one point in the show one of the
characters needs to retrieve some confidential information from a secure
network which requires fingerprint authentication to give the user entry into the network. I almost fell off the couch when I realized
the technology portrayed on the show belonged to DigitalPersona, a Voce client
located in Redwood City, CA. The
technology displayed in ‘24′, specifically the fingerprint reader in the mouse,
is OEM’d by Microsoft for sale in the commercial market space.
Check out this clip from ‘24′. It shows the power we all hold in one little finger thanks to technology created
by DigitalPersona. ‘24′ depicted the
technology underscoring its "futuristic" appeal. In reality this technology is becoming more widely
used as both the enterprise and home users are more readily adopting this form
of security technology.
I can say it’s very cool to
be a communications professional where
working with cutting edge technology takes center stage.
– Joshua Gershman
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