Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal dataadvox.globalvoices.orgexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up10
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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 days 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 compromised. It’s at most suitable for ease of access. For example, Merkels fingerprints were “reverse-engineered” from photos using common wood glue. https://www.theregister.com/2014/12/29/german_minister_fingered_as_hackers_steal_her_thumbprint_from_a_photo/
minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 days agoYep, 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.
Nope. Like all biometrical data, you can’t just replace the body part once the data is compromised. It’s at most suitable for ease of access.
For example, Merkels fingerprints were “reverse-engineered” from photos using common wood glue.
https://www.theregister.com/2014/12/29/german_minister_fingered_as_hackers_steal_her_thumbprint_from_a_photo/
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.