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- newtraditionalists ( @newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ) 4•10 months ago
Do we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?
- nottheengineer ( @nottheengineer@feddit.de ) 5•10 months ago
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.
- Unbeelievable ( @Unbeelievable@beehaw.org ) 5•10 months ago
Is that the way its usually done on phones too?
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months ago
Correct.
- EmperorHenry ( @EmperorHenry@infosec.pub ) 2•10 months ago
Using biometrics as a key to get into anything important is stupid anyway.