Re:Fingerprints can be hacked
by monopoledance on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @06:09AM
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Potatoes, potatoes, or something.
So far I haven't encountered a device where a fingerprint was used to unlock disk encryption, so your objection is actually implied, I think. Especially, with the increasing uptime of Apple's new hardware, a running session is what you more often than not got these days.
No matter how you twist it, biometrics are fundamentally flawed and not even Apple can magically fix that. At least one component of access needs to be a secret, which cannot be extracted without cooperation, or "cooperation".
So far I haven't encountered a device where a fingerprint was used to unlock disk encryption, so your objection is actually implied, I think. Especially, with the increasing uptime of Apple's new hardware, a running session is what you more often than not got these days.
No matter how you twist it, biometrics are fundamentally flawed and not even Apple can magically fix that. At least one component of access needs to be a secret, which cannot be extracted without cooperation, or "cooperation".