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Am I the only one who despises biometrics?
For anything I don't control, like door locks at work, I'm with you.
For a device controlled by me, the tradeoff for convenience is so much better.
If it's properly implemented, extracting biometric features is hard, so stolen fingerprints are less of a concern.
It allows me to use a long password, which in android also serves as an encryption key for the filesystem, while allowing me to unlock my phone without entering that password every time.
The fear of forced bio entry is front of mind for me, but I do acknowledge that if someone is restraining me and breaking into my device, I have much bigger problems.
I'm fine with fingerprint, actually prefer it to most other forms of authentication, but hate facial recognition and my new R Celly phone's method just seems unsanitary.
I really like the convenience and also added security. For example, while using my half broken Pixel, I noticed two things:
Also in terms of general security I'm perfectly fine with it, as my actual fingerprint never leaves the phone (AFAIK not even the sensor but don't quote me on that) and I can just purposefully scan the wrong finger or a dirty finger 5 times and it's locked.
That is also the reason why I absolutely hate face unlock, I've quite often just taken a random friends phone, held it up to their face for 1 second, and I was in. That stuff is scary.