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Re:Windows Hello – Biometric authentication to Windows 10 de... by sebleblanc on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:41PM (#9220257)
Great! Now the FBI does not even have to arrest me to get my fingerprints and retina scanned!
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Re:Windows Hello – Biometric authentication to Windows 10 de... by jongalloway2 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:20PM (#9220549)
The video says it never stores image on the device: https://youtu.be/1AsoSnOmhvU?t=3m12s

I'd assume it's doing the equivalent of password hashing, so the authentication mechanism just verifies a hash match.

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Re:Windows Hello – Biometric authentication to Windows 10 de... by therobot24 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:11PM (#9220475)
come on, no one uses retina anymore
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