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
My IPhone has this fingerprint thing, after trying it a couple of times it has been disable every since, just like no password on the PC's. Electronic devices are tools for me, a means to a end and I do not lock up anything in them that I would care either way what happens if they get stole. This is not NSA over here. I do not have to scan my cordless drill prior to using it and electronic devices are the same. If you need that type of security rethink what you are carrying on it and secure that internally. Password protect your passwords, there are many programs that store and organize passwords with one password to rule them all. They usually come with a generator to ensure the passwords you are using are not all your birthday. Now forum passwords and such, who cares, there is just a couple that matter. As for no one seeing what else you are storing on there, so be it. Back ups and not losing data is more important than the security of that data for me. Regards
Windows 10 supports 2 factor authentication, though no idea if any of that is going to be available on Core/Pro... it's going to be available on Enterprise at the very least.
I figure if some one can dream it up, someone else can hack it. Nothing is safe, just different degrees of un-safe.
Good, because I use that for most sites that have it (I don't like using SMS 2FA, so I don't use that most places).
Sorry to say that (off topic) but: I'm running W10 TP in Oracle VM VirtualBox and I can already say that Hyper-V is being beaten up, completely! I will still test on VMware Player and Workstation. Sorry for the OT thing
I tried install newer build in vhd but everytime it boot to desktop, it consume most hdd usage (+95%). Is it normal?
Is there some error showing up? I installed ESET SS 8.0.304.2 x64 using offline installer. I upgraded from Win7 x64 so maybe this way it has some special abilities