Timeline for Should I be afraid of biometric IDs?
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| Jun 23, 2015 at 15:24 | comment | added | user2813274 | Not sure I see any of the answers addressing what would happen if a hacker got their hands on a biometric password - I find it unlikely that a hacker could change their DNA, fingerprint, or eye scan in order to match what they found, so what could they actually do with it? steal your index finger? (more of a physical issue than a cyber-hacking issue) | |
| Jun 23, 2015 at 15:08 | answer | added | dotancohen | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 1, 2015 at 17:09 | answer | added | David_Springfield | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 24, 2015 at 7:04 | history | reopened |
Shaul Behr makerofthings7 AviD♦ |
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| Apr 19, 2015 at 10:35 | vote | accept | Shaul Behr | ||
| Apr 19, 2015 at 7:54 | comment | added | Shaul Behr | @D.W. Meta question here | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 7:18 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Apr 19, 2015 at 7:16 | comment | added | D.W. | @ShaulBehr, I suggest that you post on Meta and make your case there; that's a better place to have a discussion than in the comment thread here. (My take: In general, there is no exception to the rules for popular questions. And in this case, this question made it on Hot Network Questions, which is known to distort vote counts and view counts; those have to be interpreted with special care for questions that are featured on Hot Network Questions. See e.g. meta.security.stackexchange.com/q/1585/971.) But the community could discuss it, on Meta. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 7:03 | comment | added | Shaul Behr | Submitting for reopen. @D.W. I hear your criticisms, and I acknowledge that according to the "rules", you have a fair point. Nonetheless, I humbly suggest that when a question racks up 2,500 views, 47 upvotes and 6 favorites within 48 hours, the community is saying loud and clear, "This is a good question, and we are also interested to hear what the experts have to say." I therefore submit that this is an occasion to relax the rules somewhat and let the community have what it wants. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 1:13 | history | closed |
D.W. schroeder♦ Adi Xander TildalWave |
Needs more focus | |
| Apr 18, 2015 at 7:55 | answer | added | Atsby | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 23:17 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 17, 2015 at 23:15 | answer | added | wberry | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | D.W. | 3. "Should I be resisting/joining campaigns resisting this legislation?" is a subjective question that is not suitable for this site. (Opinion polls are not suitable.) I've edited your question to remove that part. Please see security.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask for guidance about how to ask questions that are suitable for this site format. Feel free to edit your question to improve it further, after reading those guidelines. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 22:57 | history | edited | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Remove subjective "opinion poll" about whether we should oppose the requirement.
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| Apr 17, 2015 at 22:56 | comment | added | D.W. | 1. "What are the risks?" is a pretty broad question. One could write an entire book about the topic, and people have. The question might be more suitable if you can narrow this question down to one about a specific biometric technology. 2. There's a lot written about the risks of biometrics. What research have you done? We expect you to do a significant amount of research before asking, and to show us what research you've done in the question. See security.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 18:41 | comment | added | Freedo | Just because its not known to the public doesn't mean it don't exist...i have read news saying that NSA were collecting high quality photos of people to use in facial recognition software so why not biometric data ? You can easily fool facial recognition but not biometrics sensors | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 14:20 | comment | added | user42178 | In Europe the passports have NFC chips inside which contain biometric data, and I suppose how this data is used is that when they have suspicions whether you're really the owner of the passport they "measure" your biometric data (fingerprints, etc) and then compare to what's stored in the passport. This doesn't require a central database, but I don't know if such database exists nonetheless. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 10:03 | comment | added | Relaxed | I know nothing about the Isreali proposal but note that a biometric ID scheme does not necessarily imply the creation of a centralized database containing all these data. That's how biometric passports work in Europe, as far as I know. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 10:02 | history | edited | Shaul Behr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I guess it's not so OT after all :)
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| Apr 17, 2015 at 9:36 | answer | added | PiTheNumber | timeline score: 38 | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 8:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/588989540964110338 | ||
| Apr 17, 2015 at 5:57 | answer | added | Freedo | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 5:40 | history | asked | Shaul Behr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |