Fujitsu has done an end run around the problem by developing a system that requires active blood flow to work. This stipulation may not satisfy the most paranoid of people, but it does offer an added measure of security over other types of biometric systems.
There's also the issue of the system failing because of damage to a body part--for instance, if a user cuts her hand enough to impede the blood flow. Fujitsu rightly says that this is a minor issue--it's not often that serious damage is done to a hand--but acknowledges that if such an injury were to occur, getting locked out of a workplace would add insult to the injury. Thus, the company recommends that both of a user's hands be scanned, since it's very unlikely a user would injure both hands at the same time--and significantly less so than the incidence of users forgetting credential information.
Alternative Technologies
Schlage Recognition Systems produces several HandKey hand-recognition systems. HandKey maps the geometry of the hand, not the venous patterns, using infrared. With such a system, damage to the surface of the hand or broken bones that change the hand's shape could deny user access.
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