Pretty much everybody pushing fingerprints as a sensible thing for accessing a device is fucking up. It is way too easy to obtain a persons fingerprints suitable for device unlocking without them knowing - and that’s ignoring that using fingerprints enables device unlocking with a persons finger against their will.
They didn’t build the sensor, but they sourced and implemented it in their product. Part of selling products is getting your parts from reputable locations that are building their parts to your specification. This is absolutely still MS’s screwup. And if MS can’t build a device to implement their “security” standard properly. Then you cannot assume that ANY manufacturer can do it properly.
t’s not clear if Microsoft will be able to fix these latest flaws alone, though. “Microsoft did a good job designing Secure Device Connection Protocol (SDCP) to provide a secure channel between the host and biometric devices, but unfortunately device manufacturers seem to misunderstand some of the objectives,” writes Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs, Blackwing Intelligence researchers, in their in-depth report on the flaws. “Additionally, SDCP only covers a very narrow scope of a typical device’s operation, while most devices have a sizable attack surface exposed that is not covered by SDCP at all.”
So microsoft made a standard… and it doesn’t cover the full scope of usage of these devices… Including their own surface pro x and thus can be abused. It’s almost like both the sensor choice, and the software is flawed.
It’s becoming apparent that you and all the other downvoters are just windows fanbois.
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The researchers found that Microsoft’s SDCP protection wasn’t enabled on two of the three devices they targeted.
So they recommend to enable this protocol… simply because it’s better overall… But the third device was still vulnerable!
But yeah… I’m the one with reading comprehension problems. Totally.
Edit: You also still failed to articulate how this absolves MS from anything. They created the standard. They can’t choose sensors that use it properly? So either MS is ignorant, or willfully breaking their own standard. Care to actually address how MS isn’t at fault still?
It’s device manufacturers that are fucking up, not MS.
Pretty much everybody pushing fingerprints as a sensible thing for accessing a device is fucking up. It is way too easy to obtain a persons fingerprints suitable for device unlocking without them knowing - and that’s ignoring that using fingerprints enables device unlocking with a persons finger against their will.
That’s why devices need something like Apple does that disables biometrics with specific button clicks
All android devices have a lockdown function that disables all but password unlock and hides all info from the lockscreen (notifications).
Anoyingly it’s disabled by default though, you have to explicitly enable it in lockscreen settings, then activate it from the power off menu.
Interesting. Apple you just hold volume up and lock and it disables biometrics. It’s like that by default
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So… MS is not MS? Is that the logic we’re going for now?
No, as stated in the article, it’s the sensor manufacturers that are not properly implementing the security protocol.
So you think that somehow absolves Microsoft how?
It isn’t MS’s screwup. They didn’t build the sensor.
They didn’t build the sensor, but they sourced and implemented it in their product. Part of selling products is getting your parts from reputable locations that are building their parts to your specification. This is absolutely still MS’s screwup. And if MS can’t build a device to implement their “security” standard properly. Then you cannot assume that ANY manufacturer can do it properly.
Did you actually read the article?
Yes.
So microsoft made a standard… and it doesn’t cover the full scope of usage of these devices… Including their own surface pro x and thus can be abused. It’s almost like both the sensor choice, and the software is flawed.
It’s becoming apparent that you and all the other downvoters are just windows fanbois.
Also
So they recommend to enable this protocol… simply because it’s better overall… But the third device was still vulnerable!
But yeah… I’m the one with reading comprehension problems. Totally.
Edit: You also still failed to articulate how this absolves MS from anything. They created the standard. They can’t choose sensors that use it properly? So either MS is ignorant, or willfully breaking their own standard. Care to actually address how MS isn’t at fault still?