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PC manufacturers have been introducing biometric technologies into their products over the past several years; the implication being that such technologies are inherently more secure than the traditional password, especially given the lack of attention given to password creation by the majority of users.

Several years ago, MythBusters proved that the fingerprint security system is seriously flawed and can be easily broken, and just last week at the Black Hat Conference, Duc Nguyen, senior researcher at Bkis, proved just how easy it was to circumvent facial recognition technology on laptops using a simple low-quality photograph.