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Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

From Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Re: Debian and fingerprint readers
Date 2021-03-04 16:40 +0100
Message-ID <BOYeZ-88j-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <BM9JD-2UQ-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <BMitz-84M-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization The Debian Project, http://www.debian.org/

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:48:32AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote:
> 
> > Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now
> > improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default?
> 
> Biometrics are almost always used incorrectly and often insecure or
> easily hackable, it would be better to not subject our users to those
> attacks by default.

Yes, and we should do that in a way so that our users are not subject to
those attacks by default, but can still log in to their system by using
a biometric sensor, if the laptop provides that feature and they want
it?

-- 
To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy

  -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard

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Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-02-24 22:20 +0100
  Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-02-25 07:40 +0100
    Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-04 16:40 +0100
      Re: Debian and fingerprint readers William Bonnet <william@wbonnet.net> - 2021-03-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
  Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 00:20 +0100
    Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
      Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2021-03-05 12:20 +0100
        Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> - 2021-03-07 16:20 +0100
      Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-06 00:30 +0100
        Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 00:30 +0100
          Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 17:30 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-03-07 03:40 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-07 11:00 +0100
              Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-03-07 13:40 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-08 18:40 +0100
        Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-06 16:10 +0100

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