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>But start using your fingerprint to unlock it and suddenly it's oh no the gubmint is going to steal our precious bodily fluids! It makes no sense. It kind of
by tokenizer 13y ago
>But start using your fingerprint to unlock it and suddenly it's oh no the gubmint is going to steal our precious bodily fluids! It makes no sense.
It kind of makes sense. Biometrics are a whole different discipline in security and identification. It's harder to spoof, and while not really necessary for the lowly consumer, will increase their device security.
That said, you can't just say it makes no sense for any outrage when you take into account the current political hot buttons of the day: NSA's breach of trust, Rising "Inverted Totalitarianism" within the government, the lack of trust in corporate entities, etc.
It's a matter of trust. If you can't trust either a corporation or government, then this amount of open access seems scary. You may not be scared, but to dismiss others people's concern as not valid proves you're not obviously sympathetic to their viewpoint.
- mikeash 13y agoEven taking into account all the factors you say, it still makes no sense. A modern smartphone is basically a mobile spy device, ready and able to be subverted by organizations such as the NSA to spy on you 24/7. Adding a fingerprint scanner to it is so incredibly minor compared to what they can already do that it boggles the mind why anyone would care about that specific bit. I'm completely sympathetic to concerns about government spying. I just don't understand why carrying around a mobile spy box all day is fine, but carrying around a mobile spy box that scans your fingerprint is an outrage.
- tokenizer 13y agoGood point. I would guess it's just one more pound to the weight of surveillance.