To me, #3 is illusory. It's really just a form of #1. The data extracted from your fingerprint is just another password that could be in fact stolen and used to misrepresent you. You would not want your biological identifiers to be registered with any entity unless you knew that that entity was encrypting that information thoroughly.
-- Mark On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 6:49:41 AM UTC-8, PMario wrote: > > > On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 12:38:53 PM UTC+1, TonyM wrote: > ... > > If you place a tiddlywiki in a secure folder, with a long password on >> https and then use the encryption in tiddlywiki you would be using two >> factors. >> > > No offence intended. - Technically, this is only 1 factor 2 times > > Multi-factor authentication is defined as: > > 1) something the user and only the user *knows* > 2) something the user and only the user *has* > 3) something the user and only the user *is* > > add 1) eg: password > add 2) eg: usb-token > add 3) eg: fingerprint > > Pros and Cons are discussed in detail here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication > > IMO The main problem is convenience and cost. Workflows, that create > "real" security will cost something. That's a fact! ... At the moment our > society trades convenience for security and cost. > > Everything needs to be free (as in free beer). > > In my opinion this mentality has to change. It's OK to use free (as in > free speech) software / tools. ... But we need to become aware again, that > our security will cost us something. Either convenience or money. > > Just some rants > have fun! > mario > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c0edf8d5-a77a-45ed-9c04-23294baf7b34%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
