• Piwix@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Biometric login. It is available to an extent through fprint on Linux but support is not there for all hardware and it isn’t a very seamless experience to setup at the moment

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      11 months ago

      Biometrics authentication seems to me to be entirely useless. It’s less secure and more easily spoofed than passwords, and if you need more security 2FA or a physical key (digital or otherwise) provide it. It would be nice to have the support I guess, but the tech itself just seems like a waste of money.

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        11 months ago

        Setup right it’s a lot faster than passwords. So I guess it automatically wins vs more secure methods.

        I didn’t write the rules of average human thought processes.

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      11 months ago

      In KDE and I think GNOME the setup is fine. But there are no usb fingerprint readers that work with Linux, at least that you can buy.