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MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard
schwit1 writes with this selection from a story at USA Today: "MasterCard is joining the FIDO Alliance, signaling that the payment network is getting interested in using fingerprints and other biometric data to identify people for online payments. MasterCard will be the first major payment network to join FIDO. The Alliance is developing an open industry standard for biometric data such as fingerprints to be used for identification online. The goal is to replace clunky passwords and take friction out of logging on and purchasing using mobile devices. FIDO is trying to standardize lots of different ways of identifying people online, not just through biometric methods."
I'll just leave this here.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
The worst part is once your fingerprint is compromised, you can't change it easily. You can't ever use it again.
At least if you have a bad password, you can change it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
1. perfect the payment card identification solutions you currently have.
2. deprecate the solutions that are blatantly flawed. junk marketing flair such as RFID was a terrible idea.
3. take a more proactive approach in identity theft, dont just triage it with a new card. target and eliminate payment card processors with a consistent history of exploit or breech. refuse to reinstate service until an independent third party audit is conducted.
4. use when ready a new standard with a proven track record and a history of functional security. Stop inventing nonsense piecework systems that hackers swarm like flies on sugar.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Fingerprints should be treated as user names, not as a substitute for passwords.