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Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards (www.cnet.com)
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[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 43 points 6 months ago (6 children)

“[Biometric confirmation is] a lot harder to compromise,”

And a lot easier to obtain by force

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Identification != Authentication

As obvious as this sounds, I’ve learned over the years that most people don’t understand what it means exactly.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

"Biometric confirmation" is both

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