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newtraditionalists ( @newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) 4•8 months agoDo we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?
nottheengineer ( @nottheengineer@feddit.de ) 5•8 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.
Unbeelievable ( @Unbeelievable@beehaw.org ) 5•7 months agoIs that the way its usually done on phones too?
m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 4•8 months agoCorrect.
EmperorHenry ( @EmperorHenry@infosec.pub ) 2•8 months agoUsing biometrics as a key to get into anything important is stupid anyway.