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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we really wanna be giving our fingerprints to tech companies anyway?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reader doesn't store the fingerprint, just an embedding that lets it verfiy whether or not your finger matches.

And that's stored in the secure enclave, so the OS can't read it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is that the way its usually done on phones too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Using biometrics as a key to get into anything important is stupid anyway.