Posting Pictures of Your Palm Will Get Your Biometric Data Leaked (2014)
9 points by hatimmoxs 2 hours ago | 8 comments
throwaway2027 59 minutes ago
But Twitter/X desperately wants me to download their app to then make me scan my palm. I'm still locked out for some reason and I'm not a bot. It has been a week and no response from their support.
replyjiggawatts 36 minutes ago
The Grok AI wants to builds a biometric database of all humans so that even after the apocalypse it will be able to identify and eliminate its own version of John Connor.
replyEmbarrassedHelp 29 minutes ago
Its a shame that Ursula von der Leyen never learned anything from this, and is now trying to force through legislation requiring mandatory age verification for everything (EU Kids Act).
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> Mr Krissler has suggested that "politicians will presumably wear gloves when talking in public" after hearing about his research.
Politicians didn’t actually start using gloves in public. It’s interesting how as experts we very often assume others will change their habits when we showcase a defect or issue in a system. Very often nothing happens. Even during Covid people didn’t use gloves in public