RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design (www.yankodesign.com)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 26 May 09:43
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30p87@feddit.org on 26 May 09:46 next collapse

Hello dear Passwords.

RobotZap10000@feddit.nl on 26 May 10:07 next collapse

But how does this compete against the Verification Can™?

HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 May 10:56 next collapse

I remember hearing about palm veins a decade ago, what makes this boom different?

madame_gaymes@programming.dev on 26 May 23:44 collapse

I was curious, so I had to look it up. Turns out, Aristotle found and already written treatise on the idea of palm reading… I know it’s not exactly palm “finger” printing, but even our ancestors knew palms were unique.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry

JaymesRS@literature.cafe on 26 May 11:44 next collapse

My voice is my passport, verify me.

TheGibberishGuy@beehaw.org on 27 May 03:26 collapse

Welp, I know what I’m replaying this weekend.

(On second thought I don’t know if you’re quoting the game Uplink, or Sneakers. Both are good)

JaymesRS@literature.cafe on 27 May 04:35 collapse

I don’t expect other people to understand this but I do expect you to understand this. We started this journey together.

BurningRiver@beehaw.org on 27 May 13:29 collapse

The young lady with the uzi…Is she single?

smeg@feddit.uk on 26 May 12:52 next collapse

Passwords? A relic, and an insecure one at that.

instead of scanning your face (which can be spoofed) or fingerprints (which can be copied), these systems scan the ‘pattern’ of the veins running inside your palm – something that’s unique to you, and absolutely can’t be faked.

Consider me sceptical.

xylol@leminal.space on 26 May 13:09 next collapse

If something could read them then I’m sure something can take that and copy it

lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 May 13:40 collapse

A few years ago I saw a talk how some hackers where able to fool arm vein scanners. I think it was a talk on the chaos communication congress

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 26 May 14:12 collapse

Was it done in such way it could just as easy to fool multiple scanners at the same time? As in scanning eye, finger and palm at the same time. Though I wonder how expensive/difficult/error prone it would be to implement something like that.

lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 May 15:53 collapse

No, it was only focused on that one biometric. You can always just add another for security, though it is good to keep in mind, that bionetrics aren’t necessarily as secure as they are often marketed as. Fun fact: In the science fiction book “Qualityland” by Marc-Uwe Kling one biometric after another was shown to be insecure, leading to the people having do kiss their tablets/phones for authorizing money transfers, using OneKiss™, which is so more secure than other ways of authentication (trust me bro).

30p87@feddit.org on 26 May 22:20 collapse
madame_gaymes@programming.dev on 26 May 13:50 next collapse

Why do people assume that a new biometric is more secure than the ones already in use? In all cases, an authority figure only has to knock you out and they have all the access they need.

Even Spaceballs shows just how easy this is to defeat.

30p87@feddit.org on 26 May 22:22 collapse

Tbf, it also shows that a large amount of people will use extremely weak passwords. Also on their luggage!

madame_gaymes@programming.dev on 26 May 23:40 collapse

It does sound like something an idiot would do!

SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org on 26 May 15:28 next collapse

No thanks.

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 May 23:14 next collapse

Palm biometrics is less worse because you have the option not to give in to biometrics, unlike facial biometrics that there is no option not to give in

MacStache@sopuli.xyz on 27 May 07:15 collapse

Great until you lose your arm in an arms race or something. Locked out of your own home, armless. Lost the race, arm and home.