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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 1) by Chrontius on Saturday October 01 2016, @03:51AM
The main specification document, for your perusal and edification [fidoalliance.org]
The ovierview in case TL;DR happens [fidoalliance.org]
I’ve read all the comments, and it’s clear that nobody’s familiar with the cryptosystem in question, or the architecture surrounding it. I haven’t either, but I did familiarize myself with FIDO U2F to this level before trusting my Yubikey for anything. Fido UAF is the second generation version, designed to provide strong authentication without the need for passwords. Some of you may say that’s fundamentally impossible, but … look at how easy it is to crack accounts by running down the most common 50,000 list.