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> Why bother when you can pick them up from any doorhandle [...] Can you imagine how much it costs to pick fingerprints from millions of users by your method?
by M95D 3y ago
> Why bother when you can pick them up from any doorhandle [...]
Can you imagine how much it costs to pick fingerprints from millions of users by your method?
Sound can be recorded over the internet. This enables web sites to identify users in a very cheap way by simply adding a slider and sound recording on a web page overlay: "Slide to unlock contents".
- nonrandomstring 3y agoAbsolutely. The potential for mass (and covert) gathering of sensitive data via smartphones is astonishing. If an attacker has control of your phone they can now trivially get your voice, face and iris scan to clone. And now your fingerprints. Smartphone security is not going to get better any time in the next decade. All of which lends weight to my argument that biometrics as access control is the single most ignorant idea in the history of computing. I am genuinely hard pressed to think of anything dumber.