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Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers (www.therage.co)
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[–] tux7350@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Windows Hello ties the PIN to the TPM of the computer. It's not just you having a pin, its the pin + the crypto secret loaded on the device. Thats why its more secure then just a complex password.