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posted by martyb on Friday September 30 2016, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the bimoetrics!=password dept.

PaymentEye and EWeek report on the partnership of Lenovo, Intel, Synaptics and PayPal. Lenovo Yoga 910 laptop computers are fitted with Intel processors and Synaptics fingerprint readers. PayPal will allow sign-ins using the FIDO (fast identity online) protocols. With the so-called "biometric" system, people can be identified without the use of passwords and without sending their fingerprint data over the Internet.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @03:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @03:02PM (#408401)

    why are "we" giving free links to lenovo, intel and paypal? none of them deserve it. lenovo is shilling(or actively working for) for microsoft with this yoga raid driver bullshit and still uses other outrageous tactics to like bios/uefi whitelists for wwan modems. Intel should have made a driver for Gnu+linux for this fake raid lenovo is using on it's yoga laptop from the beginning. Paypal spams clients and tries to steal them from you while data mining for the degenerates at the IRS. They are vile scum. Everyone has to decide where to draw the line on their own but i don't think we should be actively shilling for them! and who gives a shit about new insecure auth methods to make it easier for idiots to log in anyways?

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