They never seem to understand:
Your fingerprint like your face can be the username, but never the password.
Your fingerprint is exactly like your username: you cannot change it and you always leave it in public.
Your fingerprint like your face can be the username, but never the password.
Your fingerprint is exactly like your username: you cannot change it and you always leave it in public.
But soon we will have. All the banks are considering some form of biometric authentication for ATMs, and so on, and this could expand to many other types of services. That means you'll have to scan and store your fingerprint on a range of devices with highly variable security. Eventually your fingerprint will be sold on the black market, just like your SSN is.
First I've heard of this. Is this a regional thing or a global trend? Got any sources?
There is a market for it because the average Joe and Jane are pretty lazy and would rather touch something to unlock it than having to go through the hassle of typing and remembering (forgetting) a password. They probably don't understand the secrutiy implications of it either.
Security isn't black and white.
Provided you have them, medical amputations of limbs is a thing that happens.
Seriously, use your eye or fingerprint as a password and there is someone ruthless enough to remove them from your body.
I mean, I agree with not using fingerprints as passwords but not because I want to protect myself from the fingermen.
Placing any security value on human body parts is a stupid idea, whether as a password or as a automated proof of identity.
I think it's quite clear we shouldn't use biometrics as passwords but I don't think this is a strong argument.
We at startup xyz take security seriously. We regret to inform you that on the night of 1st December 2016 our database was compromised. The database contained your name, address and fingerprint data.
Please see a plastic surgeon about resetting your fingerprints at as soon as possible.
Thank you, Startup Xyz
"The proposed system stores alphanumeric and biometric data (a combination of four fingerprints and the facial image). [...] The System is composed of a central database connected to national entry points."
If/when this comes to be, that database will probably be both well-protected and an incredibly tempting attack target.
*more to the point, the only way I see a government who stores biometric data being an issue WRT security: the government is after you (in which case they're likely getting what they want anyway), or it's a targeted attack from a foreign government (in which case biometric theft is the least of your concerns).
Or think about locking your phone. Most people only want to stop their friends and family - they're not going to copy you fingerprint. Even FBI nearly defeated by TouchID. (You're probably thinking that they could have easily bypassed it, but they only had 48 hours to do so.)
I do use the fingerprint reader on my iPhone, and I believe that the fingerprint data is never sent to another device. Ever.
There are real problems to using the iPhone fingerprint with apps, in that the apps tells me it needs to store an encrypted version of my password on iCloud in order to enable fingerprint unlock. The Bad Guys could get my encrypted password and I might never know.
But I wouldn't have to change my fingerprint in that case.