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"Additionally, fingerprint data of 5.6 million of these individuals was stolen." They'll need to change their fingerprints immediately!
by loteck 10y ago
"Additionally, fingerprint data of 5.6 million of these individuals was stolen."
They'll need to change their fingerprints immediately!
- dredmorbius 10y agoI'd like to see YYYY-04-01 RFC on biometrics authenticator expiration protocols.
- bigiain 10y ago"As an alternative, users may keep all their fingers in a fingerprint safe and secure them all with a single retina scan, which they can use to open the safe each time they need to use a finger."
- maerF0x0 10y agoThats why fingerprint is username, not password
- idlewords 10y agoPassword is thumbprint.
- bigiain 10y agoIn keeping with industry best practice, I require staff to sandpaper off their fingerprints and regrow them every 90 days. For "security".
- redwards510 10y agoA bit extreme isn't that? I just have my staff paint their fingerprints with women's ruby red fingernail paint. It dries to a smooth glass-like finish. For "security"
- streptomycin 10y agoThe letter they sent me claimed that there is currently no way to create fake fingerprints, so there's nothing to be worried about, 2 years of identity theft monitoring is good enough.
- loteck 10y agoI'm sure you're very comforted by that addition of the qualifier "currently." Correlated letter from 2011: "Dear streptomycin, your fingerprint data is currently not stolen!"
- biafra 10y agoIn what world are they living, where there is "no way to create fake fingerprints"? Of course that is possible. Here is one example: http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.en http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.en It is easily possible to create fake fingerprints that can fool any known finger print scanner. If you know one, that supposedly can't be tricked, please let me know.
- mtgx 10y agoThey lied to you. But what else is new.
- UlyssesSKrunk 10y agoThat was a blatant lie tho.
- jandrese 10y agoI wasn't sure if they were lying or merely incompetent when they said that. Mythbusters has an episode of them defeating fingerprint locks using a print lifted from a glass, and the technique they used was anything but sophisticated.