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@notenoughtech Are you concerned with a corporation having permanent access to your biometric data?
@notenoughtech So they say. I don't trust anything biometric even on my FOSS devices. After Snowden's PRISM leaks, I haven't trusted any of the stuff.
@RegalBeagle order any capacitive fingerprint sensor you'd like and connect it to a dev board. You'll understand what is the actual output and what is this technology capable of. This isn't a scanner. There is a reason governments image the fingerprint rather than use these readers as they only can compare electonic signatures of stored digital "fingerprints".
No open/close source would change what technology is capable of
@notenoughtech A fingerprint scanner isn't a camera taking a picture or 3d scan of your face/eye. I don't use fingerprint scanners, either, but the technologies are very different. Regardless of hashing, an actual picture or pointmap needs to be collected at some point in the authentication process.
@RegalBeagle yes and the only way to match it is to compare it with physical fingerprint.. Likely done with the same reader.
Being worried about this is a bit like Bing worried that the government would collect the fingerprints from underground train.
@RegalBeagle it's not how fingerprinting works. Biometrics stores a hash generated by the reader (not face image or fingerprint) in addition to this it's stored locally on the device (Bluetooth no WiFi) so I'm not concerned at all.