And they want digital ID…
Hi @LocalYokel , thanks for the heads up.
How safe is a facial recognition password or a fingerprint password?
cheers
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They are good and bad.
From a singular perspective, it’s almost impossible to cheat. However, I’m not enthusiastic about giving that data to my device. It probably already knows my face, but why give them?
Personal choice is ten+ character password with upper and lower case, numbers and symbols. It’ll take the most powerful computer (not quantum) decades to crack it.
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Maybe if we could uniquely identify ourselves, somehow, digitally, all these bad things would stop /s
Meantime any non-USA students keen to attend the credentialling centers at Stanford and the like (Trump loves them, he said so) are urged to unprotect/make public all their social media accounts. This is so that Homeland Security (outsourcing to some poor wretches in Durban, who knows) can make sure no wrong-thinkers are allowed in.
Too bad about that “Like” you gave that Iranian meme Chen, but Shanghai Uni is actually pretty good.
Maybe reselling sock puppet accounts that were unfailingly loyal, in all respects, during the flu d’etat might make a nice fundraiser for the 77th?
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Wouldn’t it be possible for the authorities to fake it? Maybe in a situation where you had limited room to query it, like - as @Kieran_Telo suggests - some old social media posts. You probably couldn’t get the High Court to investigate the provenance of some punitive action based on it, but it could still cost you your bank account or a bunch of your credits.