If one day our Fingerprint ends up Getting Stollen, Is There a Way we can Change it?

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• SpacePirate@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could you? Yes. But there really is no point— biometrics alone are only a single factor for authentication.

  You should have at least two of the three— something you are (fingerprint, facial, or retinal recognition), something you have (badge, token, secure device), and something you know (passphrase).

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  • scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone always seems to forget rectal recognition SMH

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    • RyruGrr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some places use penile codes, as well.

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    • nodsocket@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smart pipe

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    biometrics alone are only a single factor for authentication.

    I’d argue that biometrics is NOT an authentication factor but is instead a username. You’re identifying who you are.

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    • SpacePirate@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Authentication is, explicitly, the process of validating that you are who you say you are. Like biometrics, your username is part of your digital identity. So you are correct in arguing that biometrics alone is little stronger than a username, but by definition, both are part of authentication.

      That said, to securely authenticate your identity, you need to use multiple factors.

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• WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No there is no way. And vecause of that it is a stupid idea to use fingerprints instead of passwords

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  • Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, like I couldn’t even technically create a Scar on the finger by continuously creating damage at the same place to destroy some details and create new ones?

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    • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You could.

      Good luck with resetting your account credentials though.

      Also: Please for the love of god do not apply this logic to cornea scans.

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    • WheelcharArtist@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that wouldn’t create a new one just alter the old one. you would have to destroy / scar / whatever your fingerprints to a point where they can’t be distinguished from others

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t change it, but you can remove it with fire.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve totally had to wait for wounds to heal to recalibrate my thumbprint

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• tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh shit, new fear unlocked

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  • Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, like, when you save your Fingerprint in your phone it stays in a safe place in the phone, but it could get stollen if a person made a shitty product, and like, I don’t know you but I only got 10 of those

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    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Normally phones provide an API to use your fingerprint, but the fingerprint itself isn’t shared or stored. Just like passwords there are ways of sharing this without sharing the plain data or storing it.

      It would be much easier to lift your fingerprint IRL and use it than through a website like that. At least without skipping through a lot of warnings.

      To avoid always having to login, there’s a token cached on the browser side which lately has been the target of attacks. A temporary ticket store on your computer that people copy to use for a while and access sensistive info as if they had you crendentials. With this type of attack it doesn’t matter what the password type is.

      TLDR fingerprints are as safe as any other password, which isn’t very safe.

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• Swerker@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a scar across one of my fingers so that part of my fingerprint has changed

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• Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You Cannot Remove Your Fingerprints With Pineapple

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  • guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was interesting and confirms what I remembered: you cannot alter your fingerprints. You can remove them, however.

    Also interesting is that fingerprinting is not as certain as most think. A match is never 100%.

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    • dbx12@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      a match is never 100%

      But but but, the CSI series catches murders with 100% matches! (Ok, they also hack in VBA)

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to mention that not everyone has fingers.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dude. Spell check.

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  • neptune@dmv.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d love a nice freshly baked fingerprint stollen. In Dec at least.

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• VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t helpful but my phone and laptop stopped being able to read my fingerprints following a stem cell transplant.

  Not sure exactly what caused it (chemo, radiation, the transplant itself) but I did have to redo my fingerprints to unlock my phone and laptop.

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• droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stollen?

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  • Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone has stolen my stollen!

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, like if we get crumbs on our fingertips.

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