Since I use external USB keyboards with my MacBook Pros, I tried to plug it into the USB built in to Apple keyboards. Now you have loose hanging thing twisted upside down or sideways sitting on the side of your laptop (as the cables often have an inherent 'twist' torque in them that flip the device on its side), and it is now even less usable as you almost have to grab is with one, hold it up firmly enough so you can swipe a finger from the other hand through it. So, it comes with a maybe 6' USB extension, but then it makes it even less attractive, in visual and usage sense. The worst thing about the design is that it is useless to plug in to a typical MacBook Pro (i5 15' for this case) when anything else is plugged in. &*mYpa$$word&*43!! Instead of just &*mYpas$$ etc. Using it regularly and getting used to it provide the benefit that you can ( I did) make the password far more complex/long than when just typing it in my hand. On the other hand (no pun intended) it does log me in quickly when I do it 'right'. Often I wonder if the 2-3 attempts are worth the hassle of using the device. It is finicky, it often takes 2-3 slides of the finger(s) or one slow very accurate swipe for it to work. The product itself gets 3 stars, but the 4th star is for the fact that they made the effort to develop it for Mac, and even more so for how absolutely wonderful both the seller (reseller) and the manufacturer were to my emails about the bugs and frustrations I encountered. In combination with the Eikon™ Digital Privacy Manager, a USB peripheral fingerprint reader, Protector Suite for Mac enables Mac users to swipe their finger instead of typing passwords to login as well as access password-protected.

UPEK has launched Protector Suite® for Mac software at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.

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