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Typical over engineering that would worry about stealing the encrypted hard disk when discussing about a fingerprint scanner that would only really take a coupl

Typical over engineering that would worry about stealing the encrypted hard disk when discussing about a fingerprint scanner that would only really take a couple minutes to fool for the determined attacker... When did we forget that biometrics were supposed to be a convenience and not a replacement for true authentication against any real adversary? As the entire concept of using irreplaceable parts of yourself as key is broken since the start... Who is the adversary here? The point of all this is to at best protect against untrained thief, but with biometrics, never against anything more...

thaumasiotes 3y ago
> When did we forget that biometrics were supposed to be a convenience and not a replacement for true authentication against any real adversary? Before the first guy started implementing biometric unlock. If you can use it to unlock things, then it is an upper bound on the security level for whatever it can unlock. > As the entire concept of using irreplaceable parts of yourself as key is broken since the start... Yes, obviously. A password that can never be changed is a huge security downgrade from a normal password.