Are mobile devices already making PIV cards obsolete? (Government Computer News)
How will cards be accommodated on smart phones and other handheld devices?
Some industry observers think they won’t be; that the time of the PIV [ed: Personal Identity Verification] card has passed before it has been fully adopted.
“I think they will move away from the hardware requirements,” said Susan Zeleniak, group president of Verizon Federal. She predicted that authentication and authorization will be done via onboard biometric applications in handheld devices.
