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Insert Coin: PIPA Touch fingerprint reader lets phone owners authenticate most anything

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Insert Coin PIPA Touch fingerprint reader lets phone owners authenticate most anything

Mobile security beyond PIN codes and passwords is usually a tentative affair. There’s fingerprint readers, but they’re often specific to the device or the platform, and sometimes limited to just a handful of tasks. Team PIPA wants to raise funds for a more universal solution. Its PIPA Touch scanner can add biometric authentication to phones’ lock screens, websites and other tasks through a developer kit, and a modular design lets it slip into cases for the Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices that should receive support. Security goes beyond most fingerprint readers, as well: while a basic swipe-and-done scan is an option, the truly cautious can require a multi-scan sequence that fends off just about any intruder.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Mobile

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Source: PIPA Touch (Indiegogo)

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