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Your password is just to prove that you are using your username. You really don't need a password, if you have perfectly honest users or a fool proof way of pre
by geoduck14 4y ago
Your password is just to prove that you are using your username. You really don't need a password, if you have perfectly honest users or a fool proof way of preventing people from using usernames that aren't theirs.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoI doubt either of those will ever exist which is why passwords and other MFA techniques will always be necessary. But I don't think that addresses that biometrics are more suited to identification rather than authentication...
- jareklupinski 4y agoyup, see every action scene where the hero subdues the guard standing in front of a biometrically secured door, then uses the knocked-out guard's hand to open the door
- GauntletWizard 4y agoThere are plenty of places where quick and easy authentication is important, and some amount of hard to fake is desirable, but it's not important enough for a strong password. Fingerprint readers are harder to fool than a 4-digit pin and unique enough that a mid-large group of people won't have any confusion. Fast food sign-in is the perfect low-stakes use of fingerprints. There's some real baggage from when they were harder to gather and how they're used in law enforcement as to why they're considered sensitive, but they're really not. Getting the law and society to agree will take some time, though, and there's a ton of reactionary forces trying to hype up the threat.