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I'm not sure I agree. How exactly is anyone (other than the government) supposed to be able to get all these fingerprints? Are you suggesting people are just go
by aliakbarkhan 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree. How exactly is anyone (other than the government) supposed to be able to get all these fingerprints? Are you suggesting people are just going to go around and start dusting for prints anywhere they can or what? Maybe fingerprint phishing? (That doesn't even make sense unless we start transmitting actual fingerprint data to servers instead of mostly using it to protect password managers client-side.) The reason identity thieves can get their hands on social security numbers and passwords is because people have to share that information deliberately a lot more often. If you breach the right database, maybe you'll score the jackpot and get the financial details of a few million people, but what database can you breach to get peoples' fingerprints in a format that allows you to create fake fingers to bypass biometrics? Who's going to be keeping high-res copies of fingerprints around, let alone in enough quantity where it might actually pose a risk to a decent proportion of the population?