misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoMicrosoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassedwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1425arrow-down17
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minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89arrow-down1·10 months agoReading the article it doesn’t sound like it’s Microsoft’s issue but the vendor’s implementation and lack of using the secure communication protocol.
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·10 months ago“vendors implementation” rings immediate alarm bells…
minus-squareCorhen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down6·10 months agoit sounds like microsoft’s own laptops dont implement the spec properly!
minus-squareAux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down3·10 months agoMicrosoft doesn’t make fingerprint readers.
minus-squareCorhen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down10·10 months agoYea, but they sourced the parts from a vendor, and still didn’t make sure the vendor was properly following the spec. Just goes to show how complicated it can be!
minus-squareatrielienz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoMicrosoft has marketed surface pro type covers with a fingerprint reader. I use one at work. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-pro-type-cover-with-fingerprint-id/8x1n09mrq5d0?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
minus-squareWooki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·10 months agoSounds like Microsoft doesn’t make anything
Reading the article it doesn’t sound like it’s Microsoft’s issue but the vendor’s implementation and lack of using the secure communication protocol.
“vendors implementation” rings immediate alarm bells…
it sounds like microsoft’s own laptops dont implement the spec properly!
Microsoft doesn’t make fingerprint readers.
Yea, but they sourced the parts from a vendor, and still didn’t make sure the vendor was properly following the spec.
Just goes to show how complicated it can be!
Microsoft has marketed surface pro type covers with a fingerprint reader. I use one at work.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-pro-type-cover-with-fingerprint-id/8x1n09mrq5d0?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
Sounds like Microsoft doesn’t make anything