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**Biometric Apps Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web**

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This is a bad idea:

1. You can't "reset" your biometrics like a password.
2. Biometrics aren't hashable. The end result is they're less secure than other forms of authentication. (If you don't understand what this means, you're not qualified to have an opinion on this matter.)
3. You can't control what happens to your biometrics once they're in the hands of a 3rd party.

Please re-Toot.

Albert ARIBAUD Ⓜ @aaribaud

@profoundlynerdy Biometrics *are* hashable -- any data is. What was possibly meant is that biometric hashes are too susceptible to collision, either accidental (resulting in misidentification) or voluntary (resulting in usurpation).

(had the "not hashable" statement not been "backed" by a argument of authority, I would have remained silent. Next time, don"'t deny others their opinions, and especially don't deny them that because "I know and you don't".)

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