Nemeski to [email protected]English • 1 year agoShopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claimsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square237fedilinkarrow-up1884cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1884external-linkShopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claimsarstechnica.comNemeski to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square237fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoPretty 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYeah, so the app never sees it. What are you disagreeing with?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI just corrected that, can’t I without disagreeing?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI mean that I don’t know what part of my comment is “not true”. I welcome corrections, I just don’t see what is being corrected here.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoIt doesn’t send a yes/no signal it sends the fingerprint to be compared to the stored one
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agohttps://developer.android.com/identity/sign-in/biometric-auth#display-login-prompt The app gets either the onAuthenticationSucceeded or onAuthenticationFailed callback. It doesn’t get the fingerprint. Edit: I think we are misunderstanding each other, I’m saying that apps never see the fingerprint. The OS does, depending on the device.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year ago I think we are misunderstanding each other Exactly
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.
Yeah, so the app never sees it. What are you disagreeing with?
I just corrected that, can’t I without disagreeing?
I mean that I don’t know what part of my comment is “not true”. I welcome corrections, I just don’t see what is being corrected here.
It doesn’t send a yes/no signal it sends the fingerprint to be compared to the stored one
https://developer.android.com/identity/sign-in/biometric-auth#display-login-prompt
The app gets either the
onAuthenticationSucceededoronAuthenticationFailedcallback. It doesn’t get the fingerprint.Edit: I think we are misunderstanding each other, I’m saying that apps never see the fingerprint. The OS does, depending on the device.
Exactly