The UK government is telling people that Russia is trying to hack into their personal email accounts and will get their passwords, so they all need to switch to biometric right now. In other words, give the UK government your face and fingerprints right now! Many people will, of course, fall for this.

  • signofzeta@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Passwords suck, plain and simple. Passkeys are one of many better solutions, including local on-device biometrics protected by dedicated hardware.

    Unless, of course, if the UK is suggesting some government-backed biometric system or app. “Send us your fingerprint, old chap. Then we’ll know which fingerprints aren’t yours.” That’d be a hard pass.

  • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    You dont say to a construction worker “You need to secure your workspace, because the russki-kaputski will come and push your ladder away”, this would be plain stupidity. Same goes for cyber security, I dont care where attacks may come frome - they can and mostly are spoofed anyway. Securing your data and having the autonomy about has the same level as the lock on your door, so no one can go in. Biometric Authentication is insecure. It is comfy, yes - I like to use it on my notebook, dont have to type long password everytime I use sudo. Face isnt good either, you can provide a photo as well. And lets not forget, that the liberal law can force you to provide your fingerprints or face to unlock your phone. As example it is absoluetly legal to do so in Germany, they take your finger and unlock it.

    Giving your biometrics to the goverment is worse. Some liberals pretend, that the character of state could never change, it will always be a bourgeois democracy with guaranteed liberal rights. Its not like the bourgeois doesnt democracy would never “misuse” it (I hope it is clear what I mean), but what if there will be a switch to plain fascism in 10 years? Then they have the biometric data already and can use it. Imagine Hitler had such means.

    My arguments against it are based from a IT-Security point of view. Just take a book about cryptographie and you’ll find enough explanations. This whole topic is not new. Usually its start to combat the distribution of documented abuse of children in media form. Then “murder is bad as well, it can be added as well” followed by “heavy crimes”. Salami slicing tactic.