@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoIs This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cardswww.cnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1116
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minus-squaremetaStaticlinkfedilink43•1 year ago “[Biometric confirmation is] a lot harder to compromise,” And a lot easier to obtain by force
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoIdentification != Authentication As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish41•1 year agoAnd a lot harder to alter when compromised.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoNot hard enough. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/officials-say-56-million-fingerprints-stolen-massive-opm-hack-msna688536
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-21 year agoStolen? LOL fingerprints cannot be stolen. Stealing is taking away something from someone. They are not protected, they are not copyrighted, they don’t go away from you when someone copies them … You leave them everywhere, every day. Fingerprints are public knowlege.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoFingerprint [records]. It says that in the article. Does it please you to be so pedantic?
And a lot easier to obtain by force
Identification != Authentication
As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.
“Biometric confirmation” is both
And a lot harder to alter when compromised.
Not hard enough.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/officials-say-56-million-fingerprints-stolen-massive-opm-hack-msna688536
Stolen? LOL fingerprints cannot be stolen. Stealing is taking away something from someone.
They are not protected, they are not copyrighted, they don’t go away from you when someone copies them …
You leave them everywhere, every day.
Fingerprints are public knowlege.
Fingerprint [records]. It says that in the article. Does it please you to be so pedantic?