return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIs This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cardswww.cnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down136
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkIs This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cardswww.cnet.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up43arrow-down1·1 year ago “[Biometric confirmation is] a lot harder to compromise,” And a lot easier to obtain by force
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·1 year agoAnd a lot harder to alter when compromised.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year 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-21 year 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-down2·1 year agoFingerprint [records]. It says that in the article. Does it please you to be so pedantic?
minus-squareSlotos@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year 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-down1·1 year 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