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I'd say the threat model is critical. If your adversary is a state power targeting you personally, you have already lost. They'll just throw you in jail, or wor
by Karunamon 7y ago
I'd say the threat model is critical. If your adversary is a state power targeting you personally, you have already lost. They'll just throw you in jail, or worse, until you put your thumb on the button.
If your adversary is a random thief, or the untrustworthy general public, then it works great, and is a significant upgrade from the zero security that most people had prior to the proliferation of biometrics on phones.
- trickstra 7y agoYou are missing the point - it would be an upgrade, if it wasn't coupled with the proliferation of random apps scanning faces and fingerprints and people randomly giving out their biometrics to anyone. It won't take long before script kiddies will crawl the internet using the latest biometric leak just checking which other services the victims used.