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

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 13 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.

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 5 points 13 hours ago

Can we have passwords longer than 16 characters ffs?

[–] spacedogroy@feddit.uk 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

Pixel 9 has an ultrasonic sensor