• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If you get into the reaaaaaaaaaaaal nitty gritty of security regarding biometric factors shit turns real weird eventually. Like “How do we know that fingerprint is still attached to a living person?” type stuff.

    I’d be sure as hell this isn’t what happened here, just sort of a fun fact. Also why I think thinking biometric factors as safe is fucking insane, exactly because they’re fairly immuteable. You get one data leak on your fingerprint-security-database and now you can never use that shit again if you’re taking it seriously. And if you don’t expect nation-state-level actors as a threat vector, why the fuck are you taking fingerprints?

    It’s mostly just technologically illiterate people falling for it imo

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      1 year ago

      Mmm.

      I should go print a silicon printer that can make fake fingers based on, idk, someone’s fabvorite ice cream flavor or something. Really hasten the slide in to the security abyss.

      Either way, I still use passwords for everything, and every password is unique. Biometrics my right tit they don’t even have t beat that out of you, then can just cut something off. At least with the password manager it has to either have a vulnerability or they need access to state-level legal muscle to force the people who designed it to open the lock. Plus if one password gets compromized nothing else is unless it’s the master, and even with the master they still need access to the password locker to do anything with it.

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        I should go print a silicon printer that can make fake fingers based on, idk, someone’s fabvorite ice cream flavor or something. Really hasten the slide in to the security abyss.

        Pretty much everytime you look into this type of stuff “good print of fingerprint” does the job just fine, you don’t even have to get that fancy with it.

        Biometric security is better understood as a convenience product.