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Re:YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Feat... by jiveturkey on Monday September 24, 2018 @01:15PM (#18059450)
"Something you are" is a term of art, not a very specific statement of fact to be legally overanalyzed. A fp is very much "something you are".
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Re:YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Feat... by dragonwriter on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:01PM (#18059830)
> "Something you are" is a term of art,

Yes, what I am saying is that in practice what that term of art refers to is not an independent, orthogonal kind of security factor from “have” and “know” but a strictly worse form of “have”.

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