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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

Pretty sure this is not true. That's how apple's fingerprint scanners work. On android the fingerprint data is stored either in the tpm or a part of the storage encrypted by it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yeah, so the app never sees it. What are you disagreeing with?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    I just corrected that, can't I without disagreeing?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I mean that I don't know what part of my comment is "not true". I welcome corrections, I just don't see what is being corrected here.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It doesn't send a yes/no signal it sends the fingerprint to be compared to the stored one

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    https://developer.android.com/identity/sign-in/biometric-auth#display-login-prompt

    The app gets either the onAuthenticationSucceeded or onAuthenticationFailed callback. It doesn't get the fingerprint.

    Edit: I think we are misunderstanding each other, I'm saying that apps never see the fingerprint. The OS does, depending on the device.

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