that true, and i guess it is worth mentioning that many physical passkeys use fingerprint scanners. the only difference is that your fingerprint never gets send on the internet at all
yeah, once you get into identifying users across devices with fingerprints I get way more skeptical. But local-to-device fingerprint scanners usually just generate and match identifying material internally, if anything goes to the host OS it’s just like, a hash or something, iirc.
that true, and i guess it is worth mentioning that many physical passkeys use fingerprint scanners. the only difference is that your fingerprint never gets send on the internet at all
yeah, once you get into identifying users across devices with fingerprints I get way more skeptical. But local-to-device fingerprint scanners usually just generate and match identifying material internally, if anything goes to the host OS it’s just like, a hash or something, iirc.