passwords vs fingerprints

[labbe5]

http://hackaday.com/2015/11/10/your-unh ... newsletter

If you've been told fingerprints are better than passwords, it is wishful thinking when used to secure accounts or devices (link above).

[dancytron]

Seems to me that using fingerprints instead of passwords is just an invitation to cut people's fingers off.

[gcmartin]

As I seem to understand, the technology is planned to be in combination of facial imaging. 3D imaging-scanning makes this foolproof over the world and all its 8 billion people.

Edited: underline " in combination"

[bark_bark_bark]

As I seem to understand, the technology is planned to be in combination of facial imaging. 3D imaging-scanning makes this foolproof over the world and all its 8 billion people.

facial imaging is by no means bulletproof.

[tallboy]

Seems to me that using fingerprints instead of passwords is just an invitation to cut people's fingers off.

Nope! Two professors at the Uni here in Oslo deviced and patented a way to detect if a finger was attached to a live person many years ago, using bioimpedance. Cannot be fooled!

tallboy

Edit: I know there have been trials to ensure that a fingerprint is actually a real persons prints, not something - like a scan - attached to the finger. Fingerprints have sweat pores...