USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
With the spate of flying viruses and nasty malware spread, it could be injurious to consciously insert your USB drive disks into any port. The implication is that it may easily be infected or you suffer “juice jacking”, which is when someone is able to steal your data through a public charging station. But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path. Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft. The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into. It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere. According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level. The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy. - USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
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With the spate of flying viruses and nasty malware spread, it could be injurious to consciously insert your USB drive disks into any port. The implication is that it may easily be infected or you suffer “juice jacking”, which is when someone is able to steal your data through a public charging station. But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path. Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft. The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into. It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere. According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level. The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy. - USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
With
the spate of flying viruses and nasty malware spread, it could be
injurious to consciously insert your USB drive disks into any port. The
implication is that it may easily be infected or you suffer “juice
jacking”, which is when someone is able to steal your data through a
public charging station.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
With
the spate of flying viruses and nasty malware spread, it could be
injurious to consciously insert your USB drive disks into any port. The
implication is that it may easily be infected or you suffer “juice
jacking”, which is when someone is able to steal your data through a
public charging station.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
With
the spate of flying viruses and nasty malware spread, it could be
injurious to consciously insert your USB drive disks into any port. The
implication is that it may easily be infected or you suffer “juice
jacking”, which is when someone is able to steal your data through a
public charging station.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
USB gets Condom against virus from public ports
With
the spate of flying viruses and nasty malware spread, it could be
injurious to consciously insert your USB drive disks into any port. The
implication is that it may easily be infected or you suffer “juice
jacking”, which is when someone is able to steal your data through a
public charging station.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
But technology has a way of replicating true life conditions and practices in technological innovations. From adapting the computer system from human brain cells, a lot of technological innovations have followed the human path.
Now, apparently having seen the uses of condom in protecting humans against the dreaded HIV virus, tech experts have designed condom for USBs to protect against virus infection or data theft.
The solution is coming from the stable of experimental security outfit called Int3.cc. Tagged the USBCondom, the product is a go-between device that creates a break between the data pins of the USB connector and those of the public USB port it is being plugged into.
It allows the user to charge smartphone or other similar devices without getting his or her data transferred anywhere.
According to the company the fact that USB cables carry both power and data means they are potentially ripe for abuse when it comes to desperate smartphone users who plug into public chargers to boost their battery level.
The danger is that to pull data from such devices only takes the charger to be connected to some form of computer and that is where the USBCondom could easily come handy.
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
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