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It's not even a good username. You can change usernames as often as you wish. Kind of hard to do that with your fingerprint.
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
It's not even a good username.
You can change usernames as often as you wish. Kind of hard to do that with your fingerprint.
- Tomte 12y agoTell that to Valve. I wish I could change my Steam user name that I chose in my juvenile years.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoYou won't be able to carry over games purchased, true. But you can create a new account. You can't even do that much with fingerprints.
- kybernetikos 12y agoI have a main account and a little finger account.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoYep, you can do that 8 more times, total. And you can't reuse a fingerprint if an account that you use a fingerprint as the user account for has been compromised.
- SEJeff 12y agoWhat do you think about doing it sort of like how RSA does their 2fa bits? Say it worked like this: You typed in your username, scanned your fingerprint for the rest of the username, and then typed a password / passcode? That makes it virtually impossible to have username collisions (good) and still uses a password. If you were ultra paranoid, you could use a key fob such as a Yubikey and enter a OTP in addition to the above.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoThat would work, iff there was not a way to show that a particular person owned a particular username. However, I cannot think of any way to prevent that. ...But given the ease of getting someone's fingerprint I'm not sure if this is actually much better than a standard username+password combination (potentially with 2fa) without a fingerprint at this point, and it's less convenient to boot.