this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
284 points (98.3% liked)
Technology
72334 readers
2887 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
How would they gain your fingerprint? I didn't think iOS or Android actually passed that on to apps I thought the OS handled biometric authentication and just informed the app that the fingerprint matched?
Yes but the fingerprint wouldn't match would it so they don't actually have to see your fingerprint they just need to get the error back from the phone OS
Nothing stopping an exta fingerprint being registered though...
Interesting, didn't know that. Do you think that different enough from a timeout / reboot requirement of code? Could the app tell?