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
    21·
    1 month 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
      8·
      1 month ago

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

  • spacedogroy@feddit.ukEnglish
    81·
    1 month ago

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

    • BlueFire@lemdro.idEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I learned it from another poster. I did the brightness trick when when I setup my fingerprintes (you setup four finger prints with the same finger, but with each fingerprint setup you change the brightness by %25 step. you start with the lowest brightness [assume it’s 0%] to the highest [%100] with each setup).

      Thanks to that trick, I had at least %80 unlock success rate with my previous pixel 8P Pro!

      I upgraded to the P9 Pro with the ultrasonic sensor, and unfortunately it’s actually worse than the optical for me, and add to that brightness trick doesn’t work with it either since it uses a different tech…

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 month 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 month 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.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    I use fingerprint authentication for my phone on The Daily, I will never use this feature. Strictly because the fact that fingerprint sensing is so inconsistent and any type of change to the phone screen requires you to completely redo your fingerprints. Not to mention any type of substance on your hand suddenly makes you unable to use the phone, just when swimming for a half hour enjoy not accessing your phone just took a shower yep you’re going to wait an hour before using your phone.

    Fingerprint authentication is super handy and I do like it, but I would never enable A system that required the fingerprint in order to pass the login

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    So it’s 2FA for unlocking your device, which is good in principle but will need some serious reliability updates first