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  • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Isn’t the idea that not everyone has access to your biometrics?

    There’s honestly no need to make computers ask people for piss scans:

    something you know

    A password

    something you have

    Access to the password

    something you are

    The person who knows the password

      • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        But that can be said of any of the other such called factors:

        A yubikey can be stolen

        A fingerprint can be scanned and distributed

        So its not really an argument against passwords (or passkeys, or passwordless, or whatever marketing want to call them these days).