Google's giving Android users an extra tool to keep their phones safe with the mandatory biometric security of Identity Check.

Google’s giving Android users an extra tool to keep their phones safe with the mandatory biometric security of Identity Check.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    15 hours ago

    How much you want to bet that this is not going to be a feature in AOSP, but will only be on the Google versions of Android.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      It’ll almost certainly be part of Google Play services. Like their other, more crude, Anti-Theft implementations.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    15 hours ago

    Biometrics are passwords you can’t change. Depends on the implementation and hashing, but the digitization of your body is still just a complex number that maths through the ALU in a compare registers operation. That number can be replicated on some level, but you cannot change that number if it is lost.

    • prism@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      There’s no reason why it can’t be supported. ROMs like Graphene have been supporting longer passwords for ages so seems like some arbitrary Google restriction. Yet another reason why I stay degoogled.

  • spacedogroy@feddit.ukEnglish
    71·
    16 hours ago

    I mean, the optical fingerprint sensors they’ve been using on the Pixels are absolutely garbage, so I will never use this feature.