return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoIs This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cardswww.cnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square72linkfedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down136
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minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up43arrow-down1·2 years ago “[Biometric confirmation is] a lot harder to compromise,” And a lot easier to obtain by force
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·2 years agoAnd a lot harder to alter when compromised.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoNot hard enough. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/officials-say-56-million-fingerprints-stolen-massive-opm-hack-msna688536
minus-squareNeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down12·edit-22 years agoStolen? LOL fingerprints cannot be stolen. Stealing is taking away something from someone. They are not protected, they are not copyrighted, they don’t go away from you when someone copies them … You leave them everywhere, every day. Fingerprints are public knowlege.
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·2 years agoFingerprint [records]. It says that in the article. Does it please you to be so pedantic?
minus-squareSlotos@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoIdentification != Authentication As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years ago“Biometric confirmation” is both
And a lot easier to obtain by force
And a lot harder to alter when compromised.
Not hard enough.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/officials-say-56-million-fingerprints-stolen-massive-opm-hack-msna688536
Stolen? LOL fingerprints cannot be stolen. Stealing is taking away something from someone.
They are not protected, they are not copyrighted, they don’t go away from you when someone copies them …
You leave them everywhere, every day.
Fingerprints are public knowlege.
Fingerprint [records]. It says that in the article. Does it please you to be so pedantic?
Identification != Authentication
As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.
“Biometric confirmation” is both