Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules

Re:Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” passw... by kardos on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:02PM (#21622501)

> A fingerprint on the other hand cannot be observed.

This is not correct [1].

It won't be that long before someone gets around to training some sort of ML system to scour photographs to extract fingerprints and start building a database of everyone's fingerprints. These databases will only expand in coverage/accuracy and the quantity leaked will only increase. Fingerprints for authentication will not survive the next decade.

[1] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3268837/busted-cops-use-fi...

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Re:Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” passw... by brewmarche on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:36PM (#21622731)

Interesting, though the thing in the article is still a targeted attack. You will not remember the fingerprint of the guy unlocking his phone next to you.

But I agree that ML scale attacks can definitely change what I wrote in the future. They could also be used for CCTV evaluations of people entering passcodes.

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Re:Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” passw... by dpark on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:27PM (#21623115)

Some “finger print” tech doesn’t use actual prints, but the deeper layout of the capillaries that can’t be easily observed. I believe Apple uses this on their devices that support “fingerprint” auth.

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