IBM ThinkPads Get Biometric Access Tech

October 5, 2004 D. H. McKee

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IBM hopes to ease the minds of roving execs by adding yet another layer of security to its ThinkPad notebooks.
Mirroring Microsoft’s “biometrics for the desktop” move, IBM has added fingerprint readers to its line of distinctively black business-class notebooks. The feature becomes available on October 19 on certain ThinkPad T42 models.
IBM’s fingerprint scanner is the latest in a number of security and durability enhancements that the company has made to its notebook line over the years including a tamperproof security chip that thwarts data theft and the company’s own Active Protection System, a technology that reduces system crashes and data loss caused by falls by detecting sudden shifts in acceleration and “parking” the drive’s head before damage occurs.
IBM ThinkPads Get Biometric Access Tech

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