Security Gimmicks in Devices
I hope the Agilebits Team doesn't mind me starting a thread like this. Samsung's new Galaxy Note 7 has a iris scanner for security in addition to a fingerprint scanner. It sounds gimmicky to me. Also, there is a My Knox software for storing private materials.
samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-note7/security/
What do you think?
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Many biometric measures are better suited as identifiers than authenticators. Let’s take an extreme example: face recognition. Your face is not secret. But if face recognition were to become widespread for authentication, then we would all have to walk around with bags over our heads to prevent people from stealing our faces. But face recognition could be used to improve identification in systems.
It is easier to surreptitiously capture someone’s face than it is to capture their fingerprint or retinal scan, but again, that doesn’t change the fact that those are not, in principle, secret. This is why Touch ID is a local-only authenticator for access to the real authenticators. It is useful for some very specific purposes, but it is not a general replacement for authentication. :+1:
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