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  1. Our #corporate #IT #gestapo has contrived to force us to use #Windows Hello #biometrics to log into stuff. Except they stuffed the execution so now when I go to log into something it

    - makes me enter my work/domain pwd <- site asks browser to reauthenticate
    - then it takes a picture of me <- windows hello authentication proxy
    - then I have to enter my pwd AGAIN for site OAuth <-- because the site is broke and didn't get the authentication from Windows
    - prompts for TWO FACTOR on my phone via auth app
    -- use thumb/pwd to unlock phone
    -- enter 2FA code into auth app
    -- use thumb/pwd to approve the authenticator sending the authentication back to the site that gave the 2FA code.

    When WIndows Hello takes that picture Im always sure to give it the finger. I smile when I think of some corporate IT person randomly reviewing Hello snaps and getting the bird.

  2. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan over the company’s use of surveillance and facial-recognition technology at its venues. City Council member Shahana Hanif has introduced two bills that would ban biometric data collection in public spaces.

    Reports have said MSG maintains a visitor database with labels such as LGBTQIA; the company calls those reports inaccura…

    en.hacks.gr/mamdani-epikrinei-

    #MadisonSquareGarden #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Privacy

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