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Well, it's certainly harder to fraudulently use than a PIN, which can be obtained by just looking over the person's shoulder.
by TheRealSteel 7y ago
Well, it's certainly harder to fraudulently use than a PIN, which can be obtained by just looking over the person's shoulder.
- deelowe 7y agoFor the initial compromise, sure, but once a biometric system is compromised, it could conceivably be compromised forever. This is what makes it a bad system for anything except identification (even then, I can imagine a few corner cases where it may be a bad idea).
- alpaca128 7y agoImho the best compromise was the lockscreen on the pre-Android Blackberry smartphones where you have to move a grid of random digits so that the right digit hovers on the right spot of a picture. Safe against onlookers, not reliant on biometrics and still quicker than entering a password. But right now I doubt the fingerprint sensors will go away soon, nothing really beats them in terms of convenience.
- j45 7y agoMarginally in some cases. I’d think biometrics with a pin or a 2FA pin could be useful in some cases.