Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassedwww.theverge.comexternal-linkcross-posted to: cybersecurity@fedia.iotechnology@lemmy.ml misk ( @misk@sopuli.xyz ) Cybersecurity News@lemmy.capebreton.social • 7 months ago message-square5fedilinkarrow-up19
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minus-square newtraditionalists ( @newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink4•7 months agoDo we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?
minus-square nottheengineer ( @nottheengineer@feddit.de ) linkfedilink5•7 months agoThe reader doesn’t store the fingerprint, just an embedding that lets it verfiy whether or not your finger matches. And that’s stored in the secure enclave, so the OS can’t read it.
minus-square Unbeelievable ( @Unbeelievable@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink5•edit-27 months agoIs that the way its usually done on phones too?
Do we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?
The reader doesn’t store the fingerprint, just an embedding that lets it verfiy whether or not your finger matches.
And that’s stored in the secure enclave, so the OS can’t read it.
Is that the way its usually done on phones too?
Correct.