Re:The fallacy of their argument (Score 2, Interesting)

Why does the OS make a difference? Would your favorite be OS immune to rogue thumbprint scanners? And why would putting a biometric scanner on an OS that is already wide open to identity theft (e.g. Win9x) make a difference?

I wholly agree that two-factor authentication (something you have & know) is the way to go, but some of the hardware used can be vulnerable as well. Say for instance that you have an RSA key on a smartcard that has its own encryption. Now say that someone figures out how to sniff the key from the card via RF emissions. Poof. You are now vulnerable to having your identity stolen. ISTR reading a research paper that indicated hardware tokens were not as secure as advertised, although at the end of the day two-factor authetication is still better than one.