Fingerprints--an open sesame for PDAs? Video

Video description: At the RSA security conference in San Francisco, CNET's Brian Cooley casts an eye over Hewlett-Packard's new built-in biometric scanning technology, designed to replace passwords in PDAs and tablet PCs.

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