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[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

to be fair the way most fingerprint scanners are implemented it isn't possible to extract the actual fingerprint (that I know of). but with a malicious device I guess they probably could procure a different type of scanner

Agreed tho I will stick with a master password I know and a hardware token that I have, probably until I die, unless something way better comes out that doesn't allow legal compulsion

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago

that true, and i guess it is worth mentioning that many physical passkeys use fingerprint scanners. the only difference is that your fingerprint never gets send on the internet at all

[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

yeah, once you get into identifying users across devices with fingerprints I get way more skeptical. But local-to-device fingerprint scanners usually just generate and match identifying material internally, if anything goes to the host OS it's just like, a hash or something, iirc.

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