This article makes some excellent points about using fingerprints as authentication, but I find it's conclusion of continuing to use passwords a bit suspect. The chances of your fingerprint being compromised are real, but no more real than the chances of your password being compromised (brute force, rainbow tables, weak hashing/no salt).  In my opinion the take away should be use 2 factor auth all the time and I also think fingerprints can be an excellent form of 2 factor auth (I forget my phone/2FA device more than I forget my fingers).

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:43 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:

moin moin,

biometrics aren't secret enough or flexible enough to use in place of
passwords.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html

ciao,

der.hans
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