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It's not even a good username.

You can change usernames as often as you wish. Kind of hard to do that with your fingerprint.



What do you think about doing it sort of like how RSA does their 2fa bits?

Say it worked like this:

You typed in your username, scanned your fingerprint for the rest of the username, and then typed a password / passcode?

That makes it virtually impossible to have username collisions (good) and still uses a password. If you were ultra paranoid, you could use a key fob such as a Yubikey and enter a OTP in addition to the above.


That would work, iff there was not a way to show that a particular person owned a particular username. However, I cannot think of any way to prevent that.

...But given the ease of getting someone's fingerprint I'm not sure if this is actually much better than a standard username+password combination (potentially with 2fa) without a fingerprint at this point, and it's less convenient to boot.


Tell that to Valve. I wish I could change my Steam user name that I chose in my juvenile years.


You won't be able to carry over games purchased, true. But you can create a new account.

You can't even do that much with fingerprints.


I have a main account and a little finger account.


Yep, you can do that 8 more times, total.

And you can't reuse a fingerprint if an account that you use a fingerprint as the user account for has been compromised.




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