Big Problems with Fingerprint Security

Fingerprint. - Do you often fingerprint in your office or school to know that you present. And now you should know that the 2 Big Problems with Fingerprint Security. 

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Thanks to the incredibly good fingerprint reader on the iPhone, millions of people have become accustomed to the everyday use of biometric security: the use of a unique biological characteristic as a security pass. Fingerprints are the biometrics we’re getting used to, but there are other forms of biometrics, like iris scans, voiceprints, heartbeats, and even gait detection (how you walk).

Biometrics are incredibly convenient and they can also be very secure. But they also have two really big issues that can bite users if they are not careful. I’ll tell you how to watch out for this in a second.

And here are the 2 Big Problems with Fingerprint Security as follow:

1. They will be hacked

Eventually someone will figure out a cheap and easy way for bad guys to steal your fingerprint from a bar glass and make a fake finger (one that appears to be alive) that can be used to unlock your phone. Complicated or expensive methods for this already exist. It’s just a race towards convenience for the bad guys. Or, worse, an entire biometric system, like Apple’s, might be hacked at the source.

Then what? If your password is hacked or stolen, you set up new passwords. But if your fingerprint is hacked, what are you going to do, get a new finger?

2. You can’t keep them to yourself

Passwords have a special standing in American law. They are knowledge, and the U.S. constitutions’s fifth amendment protects you from things you know that can be used against you in any way.

As Hall says, “They can’t force you to give it up if it’s only in your head. But a biometric factor is not in your head. It’s not mediated by knowledge.”

You fingerprint, or other biometric identifier, is not something you know, it’s something you are, and that’s not protected. In other words, you can be legally compelled to place your fingerprint on a scanner (or your eye in an iris scanner).

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