Fingerprint is not much more secure than a password though, it can be lifted and you never change it in your life, ever.
It's handier for your personal device but biometrics on a mass scale are more about tracking people than they are about providing infallible security.
Not quite, the fingerprint doesn't go anywhere from your device. Check out WebAuthn, it's a new W3C standard w3.org/TR/webauthn/.
Yes, for device security is OK. what if you're logging in from a computer or a device without fingerprint reader?
You get the prompt on your fingerprint device. When I login to gmail on my laptop, I get the sign-in prompt on my phone where I have to verify with the fingerprint if logging into some unknown device.
Got it, thanks. It works like a 2fa basically
Yep, kinda, but better.
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Fingerprint is not much more secure than a password though, it can be lifted and you never change it in your life, ever.
It's handier for your personal device but biometrics on a mass scale are more about tracking people than they are about providing infallible security.
Not quite, the fingerprint doesn't go anywhere from your device. Check out WebAuthn, it's a new W3C standard w3.org/TR/webauthn/.
Yes, for device security is OK. what if you're logging in from a computer or a device without fingerprint reader?
You get the prompt on your fingerprint device. When I login to gmail on my laptop, I get the sign-in prompt on my phone where I have to verify with the fingerprint if logging into some unknown device.
Got it, thanks. It works like a 2fa basically
Yep, kinda, but better.