In-display fingerprint sensors have become commonplace in virtually all Android smartphones, for better or for worse, and five years later…

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    17 hours ago

    Your last sentence is great.

    Regarding the prior stuff, that’s very “you specific”. There’s of course tons of caveats or gotchas to my broad statement, but it doesn’t make it untrue.

    Biometrics present a less secure access path to a device…

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      17 hours ago

      My point is that they are separable threat profiles. If you are more concerned about your sketchy tinder date grabbing your lock screen password, biometrics are great. What I would love is a quick settings toggle for biometrics.