I just went to Wal~Mart, and the have the APC biometric finger print readers on clearance for $20. (They had about 10 of em) I bought one just due to the price, and I LOVE it!
At boot time all ya have to do is use your finger to log into the machine. If that wasn't good enough, When I go to Bank of America's site now, I just put my finger on it, and it fills in the info and logs me in automatically. This can be set up for any password protected page. It ONLY works with IE (sigh....no Firefox support...) But I figgure IE is ok for secure sites, and NOT general browsing. I have IE set up JUST for all my credit cards, utilities ect, and log into each with just a finger now. Pretty kewl....
As a final bonus, if you right click on a file or folder, you will get a new context menu to encrypt the file/folder, and it asks for your fingerprint. To decrypt the same process. I have a lot of personal documents in one folder, and have encrypted it, and to un-encrypt with the touch of a finger is not much of a hassle at all.
At boot time all ya have to do is use your finger to log into the machine. If that wasn't good enough, When I go to Bank of America's site now, I just put my finger on it, and it fills in the info and logs me in automatically. This can be set up for any password protected page. It ONLY works with IE (sigh....no Firefox support...) But I figgure IE is ok for secure sites, and NOT general browsing. I have IE set up JUST for all my credit cards, utilities ect, and log into each with just a finger now. Pretty kewl....
As a final bonus, if you right click on a file or folder, you will get a new context menu to encrypt the file/folder, and it asks for your fingerprint. To decrypt the same process. I have a lot of personal documents in one folder, and have encrypted it, and to un-encrypt with the touch of a finger is not much of a hassle at all.