He says external body methods like fingerprints are “antiquated”, and that internal body functions like heartbeat and vein recognition using embedded and ingestible devices are the future, to allow “natural body identification”. LeBlanc says internal devices could include brain implants, and that ingestible devices could be powered by stomach acid that runs batteries.Time will tell, I guess, but user acceptance has been has been a big issue for identity management solutions using biometrics. A bank asking customers to put something in their body in order to access their money would seem to be of another character entirely.
Perhaps the analysis is meant to provide a perspective on what far-distant ID management technologies will look like. Even then, with the exponential growth of the computing power in "externally carried computers" i.e. smartphones, it's hard to see how gaining a foot or so of proximity distance by moving the token inside the body lowers error rates enough to justify the mess.
The subtext is this, though:
"We know how to identify machines. People are a pain. If we can just turn the people into enough of a machine, all our problems are solved." In other words, engineering! There's a problem here, though. If you turn the machines into people, the machines will probably get harder to identify.
At SecurLinx, we'll keep at it just in case.
