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	Podcast:		Down the Security Rabbithole
	Episode:		DtSR Episode 330 - Biometrics for Authentication
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:36:42
	Publish Date:		2019-01-14 23:00:00
	Description:		This week, James and I sit down to discuss biometric authentication and some of the FUD around ways it can be broken. This ends pretty much the way you think it does. Highlights from this week's show include... James & Raf talk about how hackers used a "wax hand" to fool a vein auth system Link: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/31/18162541/vein-authentication-wax-hand-hack-starbug Fingerprint authentication to start your car?! We take this discussion to task Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2018/12/27/hyundai-motor-lets-drivers-use-fingerprints-to-unlock-and-start-new-car/ James & Raf deconstruct the argument for and against biometric security We ask "Does it matter that biometric auth is hackable?"
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