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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Sensible. 
As is, IT thinking on passwords has been evolving and many are rethinking their user system security policies. Biometrics are filtering down to phones and fairly cheap tablets and PCs. Fingerprint readers and, yes, facial recognition, are replacing passwords as the key authentication systems at the user level, even if PIBS and passwords remain as a "security blanket". Even security fobs and keys are coming to PCs.
At the corporate level security fobs, keys, and cards and biometrics are the minimum at most well run places and have been for decades.
There's too much compute power out there for even the hardiest password to be trusted for mission critical security. |
The problem with biometric authentication, is that once you've lost that, you not only have no protection, but are assured that you will never be able to protect anything again.
The only long term result of biometric authentication, is that nothing will be authenticated, or securable.