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d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan

biometrics are worthless for security and are mainly useful for surveillance because they have no plausible deniability by definition. the only differentiating factor for biometrics is that they can never be replaced once compromised

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d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan

also systems to authenticate biometrics are highly statistical and extremely error-prone which is a massive risk to take unless you also really want surveillance

d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan

i posted this to NIST a while ago but ever since DUAL_EC_DRBG NIST basically seems to have become an arm of the NSA twitter.com/hipsterelectron/st

d@nny "disc@" mcClanahan

my letter to NIST on the unqualified expansion of biometric credentials is at cosmicexplorer.github.io

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