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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Mar 2, 2015 9:42AM

The key is options... As with so much.

I love that my Android phone offers me choices and and I like being able to
change them to meet the context.

The notion that even one person will only work in one way all the time
seems silly.

On 2:21PM, Sun, Mar 1, 2015 Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > how do you feel about the biometric advances (iris readers, fingerprint
> scanners) in terms of your security
>
> The fact that some people don't have irises or fingerprints, etc. is the
> biggest challenge. As for security goes these techniques could be good for
> some people with disabilities that have these characteristics because they
> would be easier than entering or remembering a password. I definitely like
> the finger print reader on my iPhone but I can use that feature while
> other's can't. Also, other techniques that rely on eye scans or are
> affected by eye movement may be difficult for people that have nystagmus
> even if we do have irises.
>
> Jonathan
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