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Re:Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head by PeterisP on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:40PM (#18694751)
On the other hand, biometrics is a quite decent username, better for this purpose than some nickname or email address.
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Re:Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head by dragonwriter on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:14PM (#18695842)
> On the other hand, biometrics is a quite decent username, better for this purpose than some nickname or email address.

Well, biometrics may be better than an a third-party email address in some cases (harder to lose throguht third-party action), but often worse than a first-party email address (e.g., Gmail for a Google account) or a nickname, for the same consideration.

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Re:Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head by biometrics on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:52AM (#18697339)
Right you are!
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