Eikon Digital Privacy Manager – Fingerprint reader – USB
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Product Description
UPEK’s USB fingerprint readers grant quick and reliable biometric authentication to desktop or network resources. They include cost effective Eikon swipe readers for home or office use, or larger TouchChip readers for multi-user applications.UPEK’s USB fingerprint readers use the same patented technology built into many of today’s fingerprint-enabled notebook PCs, as well as many mobile phones, keyboards, POS terminals, door locks, handheld ID terminals and more.
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As a technology qualified, particularly in the IT field, and as a past scheme and implementation manager on various public safety projects, I am very familiar with AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Ident. System) and I suppose that technology is what I was erronously thinking the Eikon product used – not so. In the time it took to “get it just right”, I could have entered authentication certificate a multitude of places many times before I could get the Eikon to “take” an entry. There seems to be too many conditions that have to be just exact before it works as intended. For example, damp fingers, slightly dirty fingers, a film of lotion (no matter how small and invisible), not enough pressure, too much pressure, too quick a swipe, all those variables and more cause the h/w not to accept input. I’d like to have one of these but my personal and qualified experience tells me they’ve got a ways to go before this is practical and makes sense to the run of the mill user. Go back to the design table folks and I’d like to have one..as I am sure many others would. You’ve got to take into better account the conditions variability amongst multitudes of everyday/casual users. Thanks G. Jones
Rating: 1 / 5
VERY ERRATIC. First of all, it looks clean and is a splendid concept but it sucks. Setting up each finder took about 60 scans per finder. Gave up after scanning 4 fingers because I have to go to work on Monday. Anyway, after all that, I thought splendid, now I can finally start using it. Load up Firefox, hit a password protected site and boom – “Sorry, the Protector is not compatible with this version of Firefox.” (Using version 3 which is about 8 months ancient now).
Went to Internet Explorer, hit the same password protected page and it refused to recognize my finger for the first 8 attempts. I could have entered the password manually 6 times with the keyboard by then.
Nice thought but it does NOT work as advertised. Running Outlook (32bit), my fingerprints are clean (not a construction worker), you can buy something better for the cash. I returned it the next day.
Rating: 1 / 5
It works splendid with Windows & Firefox.
The only conundrum I have so far is that it wont work with Roboform sign in. Microsoft reader worked with all, but no drivers for outlook 64 bit thats why I got this reader.
I really like this reader it is simple to set up and simple to use.
Rating: 4 / 5
EIKON DIGITAL PRIVACY MANAGER FINGERPRINT READER 1 USB W/CD THIS PRODUCT HAS NOT BEEN INSTALLED ON THE COMPUTER THAT I AM PUTTING THERE, BUT IT HAS BEEN TESTED OUT ON ANOTHER COMPUTER THAT I HAVE AND IT WORKS REAL GOOD. THANK YOU,
D.R.B.
DONALD BUTLER
LOS ANGELES, CA
Rating: 5 / 5
The product ships with an ancient software, but you can get a free upgrade to Protector Suite 2009 at Upek’s website by contacting customer support – kinda lame since the software was released more than 4 months ago.
But even with the new software, the Protector Suite consistently causes Windows 7 Pro (32-bit) to crash (blue screen) when starting Internet Explorer 8 if the user is logged on manually using a password. To mitigate the conundrum, disable PasswordBank, AND the user should logon using the biometric reader or start up the protector suite control panel BEFORE starting Explorer 8. With this workaround, Windows no longer crashes but Explorer can still sometimes crash when opening new windows or tabs (to mitigate this, set “new tabs” to “blank tab” in Explorer’s Tabs settings). The Firefox plugin for 3.5.x works splendid, although it can crash Windows 7 (rarely).
The file encryption and folder safe features are useful & simple to use, though it would be better if they used 256-bit encryption instead of their proprietary one. Also, their menu shortcuts (“biomenu”) provides well-located access to websites and sensitive data. But, their eWallet feature needs a lot of improvement. Instead of 1 verification providing access to the entire wallet, each data card requires biometric verification. Editing a data card is also equally cumbersome since the data can’t be abridged simply by clicking on the field (double clicking works but it registers really slow), instead the user must first right click to brilliant what field to edit.
By and large, this product is excellent if you rarely use Explorer 8 (or earlier versions) – use Firefox 3.5.x instead. The software uses reasonable memory & CPU resources so it should not slow down your computer – it just crashes if you do not jump owing to the jewelry mentioned above
Rating: 3 / 5