I think finger-print scanning technology will be important in providing people with trust in using mobile cryptocurrency payment apps on their phone (because if the phone is lost, the cryptocurrency is still safe).
We should be seriously considering a PPCoin payment app that is easy to use, intuitive, and attractive as a result. What do you all think?
[quote=“MeBeingAwesome, post:1, topic:352”]I think finger-print scanning technology will be important in providing people with trust in using mobile cryptocurrency payment apps on their phone (because if the phone is lost, the cryptocurrency is still safe).
We should be seriously considering a PPCoin payment app that is easy to use, intuitive, and attractive as a result. What do you all think?[/quote]
With a password the wallet is also save. The finger-print is mine, not Googles not Apples not NSAs.
But if the market needs it …
I guess in my mind having a fingerprint authentication is much quicker to use when purchasing a product at the point-of-sale, relative to having to type a password into your phone.
From what I’ve read, the fingerprint is only stored locally in your phone as a string of numerical values. Guess we’ll see if that’s true or not.
I tend to ask people, who do not care about their private infos, and who feel secure in the face of NSA, for which price I can buy all personal data of their life. Location at any time, friends and all their contact infos (the friends in Iran also), all emails and telephone calls, all websites you visited ever, every click you did in the internet, and so on. If you think about this, you know, how much you are worth yourself.
You believe this?
You should do it, because the market wants it. This is my really and truly opinion. If you don’t do this, then anotherone will do it. Most people in this world will appreciate it.
Finger-print identification is not very secure.
There are realtively easy ways to steal and fake fingerprints, as the German hacker collective Chaos Computer Club has shown in 2005. There is even a “wikihow”: http://www.wikihow.com/Fake-Fingerprints
Obviously modern fingerprint scanners have some security mechanisms (like temperature sensors) that can sort out such “easy” fake attempts and faking would be more difficult. But if this technology would be used in a large extent for high-risk things like online banking or cryptocurrency, some criminal would fake it anyway, although costs would be higher.
[quote=“d5000, post:6, topic:352”]Finger-print identification is not very secure.
There are realtively easy ways to steal and fake fingerprints, as the German hacker collective Chaos Computer Club has shown in 2005. There is even a “wikihow”: http://www.wikihow.com/Fake-Fingerprints
Obviously modern fingerprint scanners have some security mechanisms (like temperature sensors) that can sort out such “easy” fake attempts and faking would be more difficult. But if this technology would be used in a large extent for high-risk things like online banking or cryptocurrency, some criminal would fake it anyway, although costs would be higher.[/quote]The iPhone 5S uses some sort of sub-dermal scanner thing. It not really your standard optical fingerprint scanner that has been cracked a million and one times. We will have to wait till the phone is released to see if that worse or a better thing.