So it’s not Windows, it’s hardware.
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xep@kbin.social 7 months ago
The premier sensors enabling Windows Hello fingerprint authentication are not as secure as manufacturers had hoped. Researchers have discovered security flaws in a number of fingerprint sensors used in several laptops that work with the Windows Hello authentication feature.
Saved you a click.
Nougat@kbin.social 7 months ago
subignition@kbin.social 7 months ago
If a malicious actor has physical access to your machine, you have already lost. Been that way since the dawn of computing. Full-disk encryption can potentially protect your data from unauthorized access, but it can't really stop a thief from wiping the laptop and making it their own. And if you get it back you probably want to wipe it anyway.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Also can’t stop someone from cloning the disk and waiting until quantum computing is cheap enough to crack it.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Quantum computing can potentially break the public-key encryption used for transmitting messages across the Internet, but the symmetric-key encryption used for storing data on disk is an entirely different thing.
virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If I vaguely remember, symmetric encryption is more or less halved by quantom computers using the current encryption breaking methods right? That and just the growing computer power IF they continue to grow at a similar rate. 32 bit encryption used to be the military standard, now it’s a joke that a kid’s laptop could break.
Makes it potentially vulnerable to governments who are dedicated, but as long as the common laptop theif doesn’t have a quantum computer or a generic technical literacy and years to wait and we’re not making enemies with governments we’re all fine regardless.