Fingerprint Unlock: Does Anybody Else Feel Uncomfortable?

dilettante

dilettante

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Michigan
I've always avoided securing my phone's and tablet's lockscreens. I didn't worry because I don't keep any important credentials in them, don't use banking & finance apps, etc.

But now more services are requiring fingerprint locking, with or without a backup like a PIN, finger-stroke pattern, face, password, etc.

I always think "Oh crap, I'll need it in a hurry and the reader won't detect my fingerprint properly."
 

I have fingerprint recognition on my phone and my tablet. I can use either the numerical code or my fingerprint. The fingerprint is faster and easier. When they are rebooted only the numerical code works. The fingerprint is only recognized after the initial unlock with the number.
 
My ipad (the older one) uses Touch ID , but it does not always do well at identifying my fingerprint, so then it asks for my password. In the summertime, when I am often outside working in the yard and garden, my fingers get scraped up, and it seems to afffect the fingerprint enough that the ipad can’t identify it as my print.
I can always delete it and rescan the print back in, but since it would change the next time I was outside and scraped up my fingers again, it does not do much good, so I just put in the pin and don’t bother with the Touch ID.

I think that I would worry if that was the only method of accessing a device or an account, in case something did happen to the finger/thumb that you have on file. I am much happier with the Face ID and it always can tell it is me.
 
That Lady in PA said:
I have never been offered fingerprint ID anywhere.
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Maybe you have Apple devices?

Apple chose a fingerprint scanning hardware system incompatible with edge-to-edge displays. So they moved to Face recognition instead, less secure but better than nothing.

Most of the better Android brands integrate the scanner into the power button.
 
I get into the premises where I work with an ordinary key - I am not first one there so alarm is already turned off.

But I do log in and out with a finger print.

Gone are the old paper (or even electronic) time sheets.
 
Some banks tried to set up voice recognition for me. I had to repeat a phrase for their system to record my voice. Unfortunately after several attempts and , I'm sorry, I didn't recognise that, I gave up. Apart from a PIN, the only other type of recognition is the face recognition from my passport.
 
I use my finger, to open my phone, sometimes
it asks for the pin for extra security, I have no
problem with either.

Mike.
 

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