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Article: UCLA team devises ways to stop credit card fraud
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- University Wire
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- April 8, 2004
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Harold Lee
University Wire
04-08-2004
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- A team of University of California at Los Angeles graduate student researchers is working to eliminate a variety of security and privacy problems by creating a portable device that would identify users by their thumbprints.
Instead of relying on passwords or signatures to verify identity, users of the device meant to hang on one's keychain -- appropriately called ThumbPod -- would use thumbprints to approve financial transactions.
The team, led by Ingrid Verbauwhede, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has created a prototype version of the device it hopes will replace credit cards.
Credit card owners ...