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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Is that the way its usually done on phones too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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