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How Much Damage Can the OPM Hackers Do with a Million Fingerprints? (nationaljournal.com)
2 points by hammock on July 15, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



>problematic is that there is "no way to reissue a fingerprint," Lee said, meaning that once a set is in the hands of a foreign adversary they are vulnerable as long as that person is working in government.... That reality could create a squeeze on government for decades to come, as agencies may be forced to forgo fingerprints for things like two-factor authentication and instead rely on another biometric, such as facial recognition or iris scans.

I see people on HN say it all the time, biometrics are for identification, not authentication.




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