Attacks against the fingerprint of the defense minister of Germany make sense. But @owen doesn’t need to worry about hackers taking pictures of his thumbs with telephoto lenses because the potential attackers aren’t sophisticated enough to pull that attack off.
@owen also doesn’t need to worry about the NSA figuring out how to break into the secure enclave of his iPhone, or finding a vulnerability letting them reverse the hash, because frankly the NSA has far better ways to attack me in bulk and I’m not at all interesting enough for targeted operations.
his nosy friends to stay out of his Safari password section so they can’t see how much money is in his bank or read his email.
a pickpocket who steals his phone to not be able to get in and do anything, including wiping it for resale.
The convenience of a fingerprint then lets me use a long alphanumeric password to unlock my phone whenever it restarts (seldom) or whenever my three year old’s playing with it locks me out (frequently).
Threat model, threat model, threat model!
Attacks against the fingerprint of the defense minister of Germany make sense. But @owen doesn’t need to worry about hackers taking pictures of his thumbs with telephoto lenses because the potential attackers aren’t sophisticated enough to pull that attack off.
@owen also doesn’t need to worry about the NSA figuring out how to break into the secure enclave of his iPhone, or finding a vulnerability letting them reverse the hash, because frankly the NSA has far better ways to attack me in bulk and I’m not at all interesting enough for targeted operations.
What @owen needs is:
The convenience of a fingerprint then lets me use a long alphanumeric password to unlock my phone whenever it restarts (seldom) or whenever my three year old’s playing with it locks me out (frequently).