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RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design

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Passwords? A relic, and an insecure one at that.
instead of scanning your face (which can be spoofed) or fingerprints (which can be copied), these systems scan the ‘pattern’ of the veins running inside your palm – something that’s unique to you, and absolutely can’t be faked.
Consider me sceptical.
- If something could read them then I'm sure something can take that and copy it
- A few years ago I saw a talk how some hackers where able to fool arm vein scanners. I think it was a talk on the chaos communication congress
  
  Was it done in such way it could just as easy to fool multiple scanners at the same time? As in scanning eye, finger and palm at the same time. Though I wonder how expensive/difficult/error prone it would be to implement something like that.
Why do people assume that a new biometric is more secure than the ones already in use? In all cases, an authority figure only has to knock you out and they have all the access they need.
Even Spaceballs shows just how easy this is to defeat.
- Tbf, it also shows that a large amount of people will use extremely weak passwords. Also on their luggage!
  
  It does sound like something an idiot would do!
I remember hearing about palm veins a decade ago, what makes this boom different?
- I was curious, so I had to look it up. Turns out, Aristotle found and already written treatise on the idea of palm reading... I know it's not exactly palm "finger" printing, but even our ancestors knew palms were unique.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry
Hello dear Passwords.
My voice is my passport, verify me.
- Welp, I know what I'm replaying this weekend.
  (On second thought I don't know if you're quoting the game Uplink, or Sneakers. Both are good)
  
  I don't expect other people to understand this but I do expect you to understand this. We started this journey together.
But how does this compete against the Verification Can™?
No thanks.
Great until you lose your arm in an arms race or something. Locked out of your own home, armless. Lost the race, arm and home.
Palm biometrics is less worse because you have the option not to give in to biometrics, unlike facial biometrics that there is no option not to give in

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