return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoIs This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cardswww.cnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down135
arrow-up172arrow-down1external-linkIs This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cardswww.cnet.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up43arrow-down1·6 months ago “[Biometric confirmation is] a lot harder to compromise,” And a lot easier to obtain by force
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·6 months agoAnd a lot harder to alter when compromised.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 months 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-26 months 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-down2·6 months agoFingerprint [records]. It says that in the article. Does it please you to be so pedantic?
minus-squareSlotos@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months 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-down1·6 months 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