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Why would you want your phone to be the key to your most secure data? Also from what I've seen in the past most finger print scanning and cheap, "organic" iden
by visural 13y ago
Why would you want your phone to be the key to your most secure data?
Also from what I've seen in the past most finger print scanning and cheap, "organic" identity verification tech is not reliable and easily circumvented.
Despite not being perfect, basic password authenication (or even better- pass-phrase) is a security mechanism that's easily understood, easy to implement and can be pretty secure.
(Although still possible to do badly/incorrectly as we keep seeing).
- acabal 13y agoNot just that, but in lesser-developed countries biometric identification can be dangerous. If you get mugged for your ATM card, you can tell them your PIN and they'll let you go, free to repeatedly use your card until you freeze it. But if you need a fingerprint to authenticate, they're going to let you go too, and maybe with one less finger. Not really a concern in America, but in other places like Mexico, Latin America, India, Asia...
- duaneb 13y ago> Not really a concern in America, but in other places like Mexico, Latin America, India, Asia... Well it would be if biometrics became widespread.
- gcr 13y agoIndia's uID project has the biometrics and identity information of over 327 million civilians. This means they've reached about a third of their goal of creating a nation-wide identity and biometrics database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authority_of_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authorit...
- deckar01 13y agoYou are forgetting that it only works for your finger sensor. 2FA: your specific finger sensor's token + some key your sensor generates from your fingerprint
- kruhft 13y ago> maybe with one less finger. Modern fingerprint readers check for temperature and pulse[1]. That doesn't undo the actions of a determined, but ignorant, criminal that saw such a gruesome technique to bypass readers in a movie. [1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/02/22/fingerprint-technology-tested.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/02/22/fingerprint...
- Fuzzwah 13y agoThis isn't about what "you" want. It is about what large companies want.