Scion9066

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by Scion9066 3y ago
Generally, most devices don't encrypt/protect your data with that 6-digit PIN directly. They store the important secrets like device encryption keys in some kind of secure enclave/processor that does things like rate limit th
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by Scion9066 3y ago
The biometrics like your face or fingerprints aren't used directly with the site you're trying to log into and would never leave your device. It's just used to unlock your phone/tablet/computer/whatever's
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by Scion9066 4y ago
Two ways I can see as an outsider: 1. Google Drive/One/whatever subscriptions to pay for more storage if you want to keep your old emails/files in their cloud. 2. Keeping people signed into their Google account for email coul
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by Scion9066 4y ago
While I've been using Linux/FreeBSD on servers for years, I stuck with Windows for desktop/gaming use. Last year I finally switched though to a combination of Fedora for gaming and ChromeOS for everyday use. There's a fe
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by Scion9066 4y ago
Their readme linked from the article mentions both D3D9On12 and dxvk as some of the licensed software being used: https://downloadmirror.intel.com/761751/readme.txt They may be using both of those. They mention in the
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by Scion9066 4y ago
Microsoft seems to have provided some of that in the OS as open source here: https://github.com/microsoft/D3D9On12 Unfortunately, it looks like it's up to the application developer to support it, unless I'm r
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by Scion9066 4y ago
If people use this instead of passwords, they get less compromised accounts on their services that they have to deal with.
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by Scion9066 4y ago
If you don't want to send stuff to others, then you would generally need to either get the email address data another way (e.g. collecting the data from breaches yourself on behalf of your org) or download the Pwned Passwords data and
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by Scion9066 4y ago
Generally, you're not logging in directly with the biometric data. The biometric data never leaves your device, it is just used to protect some kind of secret key on the local device that it actually uses for the authentication when lo
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by Scion9066 4y ago
I hope that the availability of using device-based (using the built-in hardware in a device they're less likely to lose like a phone/laptop) or account based (like the passkeys synced to iCloud/Google/Microsoft) will hel