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Turning your face, fingers, and gait into a password you can never change.
means The measurement and statistical analysis of people's unique physical or behavioral traits — like fingerprints, faces, or voices — used to identify or verify who they are.
from Built from Greek bios ('life') and metron ('measure') — the same metron that gives us 'meter' and 'metric.' The combo is ancient in flavor but the word itself is a modern technical coinage, emerging in the late 1800s/early 1900s among biologists and statisticians doing quantitative work on living organisms; it only migrated toward 'scanning your fingerprint to unlock your phone' in the 20th century as security technology adopted the term for identity verification.
- weak point
- stolen passwords get reset, stolen faces don't
- false acceptance
- systems sometimes let the wrong person in
- earliest use
- fingerprinting dates back to ancient Babylon
- growing trend
- veins and heartbeat patterns now used too