BioNet

[dave <dave () immunitysec com>]

Ya know what would be cool? If when I walked into JPMorgan Chase they 
had a little machine where I put some sort of biometric, and then it 
automatically printed out my visitor badge because the other day (or 
year) I'd registered myself during a sales call at Citibank. Not too 
hard to do, you just need a simple database, some network connectivity 
(a "web service" say, so you can hook into every company's proprietary 
badge system), and a little machine that captures fingerprints or 
whatever (be nice to use all the different leading systems 
opportunisitically). This way all the guard has to do is verify my name 
(and perhaps my appointment) and look at the picture to notice it looks 
like me, and then they can wave me on my way. Most sales people visit 
about 3 companies a week, right? It'd be cool if all of them subscribed 
to the service, and you didn't have to wait in line while someone who 
makes 7 dollars an hour pretends to know how to read English, just to 
get to your meeting. For bonus fun you could hook it up to Passport or 
the Liberty Alliance or whatever so when I slide my "smartbadge" into 
the computer they've assigned to me, my email pops up. Another advantage 
of that would be that when I register the first time with some new 
biometric, I don't have to read my name out to the guard, I can just 
give them my email address and a low-grade password and it can pull the 
personal information for me. :> There's probably a lot of work to be 
done writing standards for normalizing biometric data and whatnot.

Is anyone doing this? What's the use of a behemoth monopoly if I can't 
have big brother making my life more efficient?

-dave
(note: I'm not suggesting this for military bases or other high-security 
requirements, just for the basic post-9/11 checkpoints we do every day)
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