good he is just a but hurt linux fangirl with a huge tin foil hat best leave he or she alone with the tears of linux
According to Gabe Aul hundreds of thousands of fools are using Windows 10 actively as their main OS. I happen to be one of those fools. I'm a happy fool.
Me too! Nevertheless, I have two systems for my routine activities - one is meant for testing Windows 10 Technical Preview and the other is for Windows 8.1.
Yes, now for the false sense of heightened security you will be giving them your fingerprints and retina scans. What's next, blood samples and DNA? Announced at the "United States White House Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit" no less.
As long as people don't publicly bash the OS about technical issues and privacy concerns, the former CAN be used as a primary OS. If one's aware of being a 'fool', let one be a 'fool'.
There is another way of looking at it. Nobody is going to force you to put your fingerprint on biometric sensor for no obvious reasons or tell you what to do with FIDO. I mean the collecting of keystroke logging is no more secure yet time-consuming. To be skeptical of this idea has something to do with the usual public misunderstanding of new tech. I think Microsoft needs to explain the importance and use of the feature to the general public before releasing it to the market.
I don't see where it is going to be any more secure than a password. #1 The PC will have to store a image of some sort, leaving it susceptible to being stolen and a database built. More than that, once it is stolen it can be replicated and then you can be implicated in a crime you didn't commit (I know that's reaching a little but not impossible). #2 You can change your password as many times as you like, you can't change your fingerprint.
I think its great that Windows 10 logs all activities and keylogs. Microsoft uses this data for market research to improve their products. I wish more software did it. And having all your personal info available to the companies means more convenience.
Just like a password can be hashed in a way that the original password can't be retrieved, biometric data, like fingerprints, is encrypted in a way that you can't recover the original data, let alone a full fingerprint. It would be impossible to implicate anyone in a crime using data from a biometric login system. The big weakness in passwords are we, the people making them up, most people just use easy to remember, but way too short passwords, those are way too easy to brute-force. Fingerprints are, in a sense, nothing more than a really long password, nearly impossible to brute-force, yet easy to 'remember'. Please, if you're going to act all paranoid about new technology, at least educate yourself in the inner workings of it