For the initial compromise, sure, but once a biometric system is compromised, it could conceivably be compromised forever. This is what makes it a bad system for anything except identification (even then, I can imagine a few corner cases where it may be a bad idea).

Imho the best compromise was the lockscreen on the pre-Android Blackberry smartphones where you have to move a grid of random digits so that the right digit hovers on the right spot of a picture. Safe against onlookers, not reliant on biometrics and still quicker than entering a password.

But right now I doubt the fingerprint sensors will go away soon, nothing really beats them in terms of convenience.

> But right now I doubt the fingerprint sensors will go away soon,

The Pixel 4 does not have a fingerprint reader....

The article is about the Galaxy S10 and I was talking about fingerprint scanners on phones in general.

Marginally in some cases. I’d think biometrics with a pin or a 2FA pin could be useful in some cases.