FIDO2 seems to becoming a popular, secure way to login into things. I'm thinking to add a fingerprint reader to my laptop, but once I switch to FIDO2, supposing it fails, can I fall back on the more normal login processes?
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Having just fitted a USB biometric gadget (fingerprint) - If the login via your fingerprint fails, it falls back to the usual login methods..
It's certainly a much quicker way to log in to software etc..
It's certainly a much quicker way to log in to software etc..
That’s how my facial recognition works on my iPad and iPhone.
Is this device easy to set up and can it be used for all the secure sites you need to log into?
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I'm still working out, what it can do, which sites it can work with, but....
It can log me into Win11 (Hello), rather than typing in a password. Hello, can be set to follow through to log me into Lastpass, which stores all of my site passwords. I'm gradually finding other things which accept it.
Online banking, banks seem not to be willing to accept it on the PC websites, but all seem happy to use fingerprint login, on a phone app.
Sounds positive - let me know how to get on as i find the plethora of passwords a right pain
That said I’ve been considering getting a system to remember all my passwords
That said I’ve been considering getting a system to remember all my passwords
I use Lastpass free. The pain was, it would log me out and need me to have my phone, to log back in. The fingerprint bypasses that.
So a PIN number may be safer than face recognition ?
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Apparently not as they can see on the screen which way is smudged/touched most often.
He said to lock your banking app into a seperate folder that also needs password access.
I heard that a photo will not work. I heard a similar report today, and the suggestion was, that they had hacked his password.
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Worrying though isn't it, the bloke said he was trying to get a loan for months but couldn't and they got 9K in an hour.
The guy was probably a bit naive and hadn't properly protected his accounts.
On the subject of which - at 23:30, I got one of those authorisation codes, from Goldman Sachs, as if I had logged into my account with my username and password - except I hadn't done so for many weeks.. My account was fine this morning when I checked.
Well a couple of times, which is why I use secure master passwords, and revise them regularly. They would need to both hack the Lastpass data, and hack my system, to be able to get at my data.
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