Online Banking preference.

[charles]

you don't need to make your phone availablr like that - mine isn't

[Andy Burns]

Works fine with a proper rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, the shit ones are those under the front-glass, I chose a pixel5a instead of pixel6 partly for that reason, even though it meant having to grey-import one.

[lacksey]

That isn't logging on to your banking app.

And even if you are stupid enough to do net banking over a public wifi system, the transactions are completely encrypted to that no one can pinch your password, let alone your fingerprint or facial data. Neither of those ever move over the wifi link.

[lacksey]

Not when the SMS code is automatically copied to the app field it goes in you don't.

[The Natural Philosopher]

On the other hand a stolen phone is guaranteed to have a large sticky fingerprint of its owner plastered on its touch screen. Its not hard to duplicate.

Which is why I never bother to lock my phone at all, if it gets nicked there is so all on it except some wifi passwords and a couple of email passwords that can be changed instantly

[lacksey]

And with a dedicated front mounted one like the iphones have and that is much easier to use.

[lacksey]

Impossible to duplicate with an iphone.

And facial recognition doesn't have the problem.

More fool you. That means you can't do phone banking on it.

Or use apple pay or google pay which are vastly more secure than contactless cards and don't need you to fart about with a PIN at all with apple pay, regardless of the value of the transaction.

Makes more sense to ensure that the thief or finder can never do anything with the phone except break it down into pieces and the use of the replacement is instantaneous. just enter your very long and unhackable passcode and everything is back the same as before it was lost or stolen.

Corse most don't actually take years to work out how to answer an incoming phone call, let alone how to use a smartphone.

[Chris Green]

But there are other ways to authenticate which *can* be hacked. Adding fingerprint or face authentication doesn't help when there are alternatives, they just (hopefully) make it quicker to authenticate.

[lacksey]

Irrelevant to the fact that that autofilling is very convenient to use.

That's wrong too. When the main way of authenticating is by fingerprint or facial recognition, you are free to use a very long passcode which is a complete pain in the arse to enter manually so it can never be hancked but isn't normally used, so the fact that it is impossible to remember and and pain in the arse to enter doesnt matter because you never need to use it.

[Richard]

That he is, quote:

[The Natural Philosopher]

Was she as a user even aware she had made it available? That's the thing isn't it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Piece of piss. you could never bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

[lacksey]

Wrong, as always.

[The Natural Philosopher]

You could never bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.,

There are a dozen you tube videos of people doing it. You leave far more fingerprints than you do RF signals to unlock your car...

[lacksey]

Not with an iphone there isn't.

But those can't be used to unlock an iphone.

[The Natural Philosopher]

yes with an i-phone there is

Oh dear, dumb and dumber. My point was that people are unlocking plenty of cars with RF scanners, so unlocking I-phnes with more plentiful gingerprints would be easier.

Rodders

[lacksey]

Not with anything even remotely like a current iphone there isn't.

We'll see...

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.

The problem isn't the number of fingerprints. it's fooling the sensor that it is a real finger and not just a fingerprint.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Plenty of you tube videos showing how its done. Anyway bye bye rodders

*plonk*

[Turnip Fucker]

How odd that you can't show anyone doing it with a current iphone.

Not with a current iphone there isn't.

Fat lot of good that will do you, you stupid plonker.