Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
Herowyn@jlai.lu 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
And still useless unless they also steal your phone. You are still safe from the hackers on the other side of the planet