Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 months agoWouldn’t the phone have to have your fingerprint stored in order to compare it to the one scanned?
Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 months agoWouldn’t the phone have to have your fingerprint stored in order to compare it to the one scanned?
dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Yes, the phone does, but that data is protected in the hardware and never sent to the software, the hardware basically just sends ok / not ok. It’s not impossible to hack in theory, nothing is, but it would be a very major security exploit in itself that would deserve a bunch of articles on it’s own.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Pretty sure this is not true. That’s how apple’s fingerprint scanners work. On android the fingerprint data is stored either in the tpm or a part of the storage encrypted by it.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Yeah, so the app never sees it. What are you disagreeing with?
Lojcs@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I just corrected that, can’t I without disagreeing?