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Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by 8organicbits on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:54AM (#37360023)
Fingerprint scanning is going mainstream, heres a post about Amazon using palm scans on point of sale systems [1]. It seems reasonable that point of sale systems will get hacked or skimmers will get installed (common problems impacting normal people today). The current fix is to issue a new card. Unfortunately, you cannot have a new finger/palm print issued, so the threat appears unmitigated.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54337984

Re:Potential Weaponizing of Honeypot Logs by nwienert on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:38PM (#37365750)
This misses that if this happens I can just go back to using something else. I'm not forced to keep using my eye scan for life.

And I think theres 0 reported cases of this actually happening in the wild. So I think for any reasonable person, the threat level is quite literally 0.0000%. Maybe in a decade or something.

TouchID does seem a bit more risky, whereas FaceID I'd presume would require a pretty high end camera set up in a really well lit location. I definitely can see a motivated person coming up with something, but again, seems like only if I was a government agent or billionaire I'd worry about it. And they'd have to steal my phone too to even use it, which at that point I feel like they'd just do something more straightforward like pointing a gun at you.