cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/13875589
Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a “blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking.”
This is no different than them trying to say that any time you’re arrested, you have to unlock the front door to your house and let them search the place without cause, reason, or warrant. We know this. They know this. But since both political parties want a surveillance police State, that’s what we’ll get. It’s not like we ever get to vote on this stuff. We can only vote for a couple of people that share the exact same viewpoint on these matters, and then those people can do whatever tf they want.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do not use biometrics.
Period.
Full stop.
huginn@feddit.it 8 months ago
Use biometrics - just know the tools at your disposal to lockdown your phone.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Biometrics are ease of access, not security. They make it easy for you (and low skilled strong arm attackers, skilled hackers, nation state actors, and neo-Nazi police state border and police thugs) to unlock your phone. As long as you’re good with making it easy for them to unlock your phone by all means, use biometrics.
Using biometrics to provide access to personal data is asinine.
Using biometrics to provide access to any amount of sensitive data is criminally negligent.
Biometrics cannot be changed. Once you’ve given your palm biometrics, or facial biometrics, or fingerprints, or iris or retinal scans, or facial biometrics to any company or government they are no longer useful.
Just as the 5.6 million people whose fingerprints were lost in the OPM hack in 2015.
But whatever…you do you. If you want to make it easy for people to access your device, go ahead and use biometrics.
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I use tasker to put my phone in lockdown mode whenever it senses a sharp tap (acceleration change) or Bluetooth disconnects. I figure that if I get pulled from my car or slammed to the ground, I’m going to want to require a PIN, password, or pattern to unlock. A quick tap on my pocket or just setting it down too aggressively does the same.
8Bitz0@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
So… show your PIN to everybody around you? Or should everybody type in a full blown password to just unlock their phone?
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Biometrics are ease of access, not security. They make it easy for you (and low skilled strong arm attackers, skilled hackers, nation state actors, and neo-Nazi police state border and police thugs) to unlock your phone. As long as you’re good with making it easy for them to unlock your phone by all means, use biometrics.
Using biometrics to provide access to personal data is asinine.
Using biometrics to provide access to any amount of sensitive data is criminally negligent.
Biometrics cannot be changed. Once you’ve given your palm biometrics, or facial biometrics, or fingerprints, or iris or retinal scans, or facial biometrics to any company or government they are no longer useful.
Just as the 5.6 million people whose fingerprints were lost in the OPM hack in 2015.
But whatever…you do you. If you want to make it easy for people to access your device, go ahead and use biometrics.
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
GrapheneOS has PIN scrambling where the number layout is different each time.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Draw a pattern with the dots? There’s several ways to protect your privacy and thumbprints are by far one of the laziest and easiest to exploit options available