• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    The iris can be used, for example, to improve authentication techniques for bank passwords

    Nope. Like all biometrical data, you can’t just replace the body part once the data is comprised. It’s at most suitable for ease of access.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      Yup, I use my fingerprint for my phone because it’s convenient, but require my pin (6 numbers) on boot, and my phone reboots a couple times each day (after a set time not using it). Anything more important uses a very long password.

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        16 hours ago

        So it could restart, you wouldn’t know and don’t receive calls because you haven’t authenticated?

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          15 hours ago

          Not OP, but most phones I’ve used will still allow incoming calls after reboot before being unlocked. You just can’t access the apps until you’ve unlocked.

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      21 hours ago

      Yep, this discussion has been done to death decades ago when datacenters and other secure facilities started using iris scans.

      Biometrics is the username, not the password.

      It’s frustrating that so many reporters and news orgs can’t grasp this.