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The broader argument here is less about fingerprints, and more about using anything immutable as authentication. You cannot change your fingerprints. You cann
by evancoop 5y ago
The broader argument here is less about fingerprints, and more about using anything immutable as authentication. You cannot change your fingerprints. You cannot change your social security number (at least not easily). These should therefore, NEVER be a primary method to authorize access to anything. Once stolen, the proverbial horse is out of the barn.
- h2odragon 5y agoYou can in fact change your fingerprints; glassblowing and metalwork, for example, offer numerous opportunities to do so.
- Joker_vD 5y agoDon't they regenerate? I vaguely recall reading that criminals have tried lots of surgical ideas but none would last longer than a couple of months.
- h2odragon 5y agoif they do you're not burning deep enough I dunno, I have psoriasis on my hands bad enough that sometimes i dont properly speaking have skin on some fingertips, so my experiences aren't normal. I recall hitting someones' demo of the "first PAM integrated fingerprint ID system" in '98 and crashing their machine repeatedly with my thumb. It couldn't even scan me.
- TheJoeMan 5y agoIt would be funny to use this technique to make fake fingerprints that are used as the keys. “Hardware key on MBP!”