In every device that you can unlock with biometrics like fingerprint or face scanner (Laptops, Tablets, Phones, etc.), they often claim entering a password is safer than using biometrics, and they block the most secure settings and information behind a passcode rather than a quick fingerprint or face scanner. Wouldn’t it be easier to steal a password than it would be to physically copy someone’s fingerprint?
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It’s not as black and white as one is better than the other. No security is 100% infallible, and that’s really the crux of the concern with biometrics – if a password is compromised you change it, if I were somehow able to reverse engineer your face from your Facebook photo and use it to fool a facial recognition check, you’d have a pretty hard time changing your face.
Passwords have their own issues, obviously they tend to be simpler and memorable to the user, which leaves them open to being found out or socially engineered etc,
It really comes down to the right tools for the right job, if you’re securing your photos from your last summer holiday password1 may suffice, if you’re talking about nuclear launch codes, you probably want to be adding two factor authentication of some sort.
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