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by hsileng 3552 days ago
Seriously, fingerprints is the worst biometric password. Anything you touch leaves a piece of it, if not the whole thing. The fact that it's still being used is a testament to how easy it is to break into various "secure" accounts.
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> The fact that it's still being used is a testament to how easy it is to break into various "secure" accounts.

I don't disagree with your premise (that fingerprints are very bad passwords), but I don't see the logic of this sentence. If I were in favour of the use of fingerprints as passwords, I would think their continued use pointed to how hard, not how easy, it is to break them (because otherwise, hypothetical me would think, surely they would no longer be used).