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Yet another proof you need another factor of authentication. From my experience with multiple mass enrolments of fingerprint authentication of software (more th
by dimitar 6y ago
Yet another proof you need another factor of authentication. From my experience with multiple mass enrolments of fingerprint authentication of software (more than a million people combined) about 20% don't have usable fingerprints.
Let me repeat that - never rely a 100% of any piece of biometric or any other type of authentication. Have a fail-safe mode for each.
And what about people with missing fingers or hands? Or those who work manual labor and their fingerprints simply get scarred too much to match their records?
- Freak_NL 6y agoSmall correction: biometric properties are a form of identification, not authentication. Identification of the body part in question, not the person that is (as elegantly demonstrated by Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man). As always with these techniques: step one is to introduce a system that covers 99.99% of people. Step two is to let the remainder fight their way through court while getting financially ruined until a judge orders you to facilitate them too. Governments can mitigate step two by just hoping these exceptions will give up.
- dimitar 6y agoWell if you want to get really technical, often identification works just fine, but then you get issues when you do verification, for example in authentication.
- tinus_hn 6y agoWhy lose the game if you write the rules? Governments create the laws that judges rule on.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoBecause it's incompetence and malicious neglect – if it required any positive action, they'd find it easier just to fix the system.
- ravi-delia 6y agoIt would qualify as 'something you have', no? No different than a password proves you are something that knows a password, or a yubikey proving that you are someone who owns a particular yubikey. It would seem that without some yet unknown mindprinting technique everything is an identification method.
- x3n0ph3n3 6y agoThe yubikey is seeded with a secret and produces outputs that cannot otherwise be replicated without that secret. Fingerprints are hardly secrets and can be easily replicated from all of the items you touch on a regular basis.
- ravi-delia 6y agoBut that also makes them poor methods of identification, no? If your fingerprint could be replicated off of a glass, than the person that possesses it may or may not be you, but they sure do have your fingerprint. Something you have!