Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
Herowyn@jlai.lu 1 year agoThe main issue with biometrics is that you can’t change them. If your fingerprints or retina are compromised you’re fucked.
Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
Herowyn@jlai.lu 1 year agoThe main issue with biometrics is that you can’t change them. If your fingerprints or retina are compromised you’re fucked.
MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Unless I meet you in person, I’m not going to get your biometrics. The point of these is to protect your accounts from the global Internet.
xkcd.com/538/
Herowyn@jlai.lu 1 year ago
It doesn’t need to be physical breach. If it’s stored somewhere it can (and might) be accessed by someone else and reconstructed.
MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And still useless unless they also steal your phone. You are still safe from the hackers on the other side of the planet