Reply to post: More important is prohibiting biometrics for 2F schemes.

US standards lab says SMS is no good for authentication

Jin

More important is prohibiting biometrics for 2F schemes.

Biometrics should not be activated where you need to be security-conscious.

It is known that the authentication by biometrics usually comes with poorer security than PIN/password-only authentication. The following video explains how biomerics makes a backdoor to password-protected information.

https://youtu.be/5e2oHZccMe4

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