All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Is it because of security concerns or spacing reasons?

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Because you very rarely need to actually log in on your laptop. You lock and open your phone dozens of times per day, but you’ll probably log in once or twice on your laptop and that’s it. It’s not a feature many people would care about.

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      6 months ago

      I always lock my computer when I walk away from it so my dog can’t start hacking the CIA.

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      6 months ago

      I unlock my 1Password vault(s) with fingerprint, so it’s much more useful than just logging into the laptop. which at work I log into many more times a day than once or twice.

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      6 months ago

      I use the TouchID on my MacBook several times a day because it unlocks the password manager and wallet.

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        6 months ago

        If you have an Apple Watch you don’t even need to do that. 😂 but yeah it’s great having a fingerprint scanner on a computer

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      6 months ago

      “Rarely?” This is anecdotally very false, and I don’t think I’m that much of an outlier. Do you have stats on that?

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      6 months ago

      True for personal laptops, false for professional laptops. Might be why they gave me one with a fingerprint reader.

      I unlock my work laptop a dozen times a day at least. Facial recognition FTW for that. TBH I’ve never felt the need to set up my fingerprint though…

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        6 months ago

        Most work laptops I’ve seen use smart cards for this. The computer is locked unless your card is inserted and a PIN is entered, and removing the card locks the computer.

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          6 months ago

          What country and industry do you work in? I’ve never even heard of that much less seen it in a professional capacity.

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            6 months ago

            Where I work we use passwords but I’m in the trial for Windows hello for business.

            I do know though that smart cards are very common in the healthcare industry. I know that the police also use it.

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              6 months ago

              that’s really weird. I worked in healthcare and literally never saw that once… that was a decade ago now, but still.

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            6 months ago

            A lot of modern places use shibboleth and 2FA keys these days, but the military still uses smart card authentication

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            6 months ago

            I’m in the US working for a company that uses smart card plus PIN for login, then everything else is automatic SSO using those credentials.

            Honestly works amazingly.