Yeah it's Windows, but this will be the future of security. Biometric wallets FTW.
"Windows Hello introduces system support for biometric authentication – using your face, iris, or fingerprint to unlock your devices – with technology that is much safer than traditional passwords"
Alohar!! http://www.techtimes.com/articles/34023/20150219/alohar-mobile-security-authentication.htm
(security is going to go beyond traditional biometric profiling ^^, for instance using machine learning to learn from the data collected by our devices and using that to build far more complex identification verification models from that data... going to be listening to our heartbeats eventually no doubt too, incidentally our phones will also turn into onboard doctors, as well as onboard policemen)
Very true. I remember reading somewhere about a device that was already able to monitor an individual's ECG waves as they are even more unique than fingerprints. This stuff is being created as we type.
that would be so sweet, especially when the tech comes bundled with zero day exploits and built in backdoors that lead straight to the NSAs data collection centre
Yup... afraid so, but then it is not exactly a case of "newsflash- shocking news just in, the NSA are watching, and apparently will continue to do so" and it is not as if Apple, inc applepay ^^ and all of the others, are now, or will be in the future immune from this. Neither will it stop the evolution of the tech from occurring.
The tech is coming/already here, it is the way people accept it, or not, or get around it, or not, that will determine how useful and or detrimental it will be to society. I am afraid that people will continue to sleep walk straight into it.