While many smartphones today have fingerprint recognition, people should be careful with it especially when security is important. Some reasons are as follows:
While many smartphones today have fingerprint recognition, people should be careful with it especially when security is important. Some reasons are as follows:
1. Your fingerprints are probably all over your phone. You don't hold it with your hands, do you? How hard would it be for criminals to steal your phone, get your fingerprints, and unlock it? The average thief on the street wouldn't do that, of course, but if someone wants the data on your phone, it's still a possibility! Remember, it only took hackers a day to beat the iPhone supposedly strong fingerprint authentication!
2. Winter! Aren't you tired of taking off your gloves to unlock your phone?
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3. It's no secret that there is powerful malware designed to infect smartphones! What if somehow your phone gets infected and the malware gets your fingerprints? You'll never be able to get them back! Theoretically, it's impossible for malware to do this because of the way fingerprint recognition works. And that's true for some models, but are you sure about everything?
4. If something goes wrong, the consequences are very serious! Your fingerprints are the same for life. If a criminal gets hold of them, they will also be able to get other information about you. You could be at risk for identity theft your whole life and even be accused of a crime you didn't commit, even if that seems like a science fiction scenario to you!
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5. Do you trust your government that it will not require back doors to be added to mobile phones in order to collect fingerprints?
6. What if for any reason you need someone else to unlock your phone? If fingerprint recognition is used, make sure your phone can also be unlocked with a code (useful for winter too!
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