Biometrics have emerged in consumer electronics as an alternative to passwords, but security experts warn that they also bring new privacy risks.
FORT MEADE, Md. — Dressed head-to-toe in military fatigues and standing in knee-high grass next to an Army Humvee, Maj. Nikolaus Ziegler held up an unusual smartphone, one equipped with the special security the military wants to deploy in battle.
Major Nikolaus Ziegler, a military director at the Emerging Technologies Directorate of the Defense Information Systems Agency, helped develop the prototype because consumer-grade phones only have a certain level of security and a hassle to unlock in the battlefield.“If I'm in the field, and I'm going on a military operation, I throw my MBC mask on,” Ziegler said, referring to his gas mask. “Now, my facial recognition is taken off that list.
But the DOD is in a different position than in previous decades, when companies would compete for lucrative contracts to build new weapons and tools to their specifications. The hope is that a company will then mass-produce phones with similar security features, so that the department can buy them at an affordable price for its personnel. The trouble is that a mass-market version of the technology could be less secure — and more intrusive — than what the DOD has in mind.
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