Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n...
by JoeAltmaier on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:00AM
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Biometrics are helpful for identification, but useless for securing anything. As a password it has all the wrong properties. It cannot be changed regularly; you leave it out in the open all the time, its way too simple (most fingerprint 'biometrics' reduce your print to about 10 bits, like your garage door opener code).
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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n...
by sageabilly on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:26AM
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See this is another thing that has to be changed in the public perception before biometrics become viable for widespread usage- they're useful for some things but not others, for exactly the reasons you lay out here. They're not a be all end all and immediately solve all problems of both identity AND access management, and they need to be applied judiciously and only when they actually solve a problem.