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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (10 children)

it’s not a password; it’s closer to a username.

but realistically it’s not in my personal threat model to be ready to get tied down and forced to unlock my phone. everyone with windows on their house should know that security is mostly about how far an adversary is willing to go to try to steal from you.

personally, i like the natural daylight, and i’m not paranoid enough to brick up my windows just because it’s a potential ingress.

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    it’s an analogy that applies to me. tldr worrying about having my identity stolen via physical access to my phone isn’t part of my threat model. i live in a safe city, and i don’t have anything the police could find to incriminate me. everyone is going to have a different threat model. some people need to brick up their windows

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    First provide proof that you can pull out biometric data out of a secure element in a phone.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's not retrieving the biometric data from the device, that's retrieving the biometric data from surveillance or physical interaction.
    It's quite specifically the type of threat that most people do not need to worry about.

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