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Right but exactly like hashing you can set the difficulty of breaking it to your risk tolerance. Your phone should probably be a little loose but the retina scanner at the datacenter of the dod will be a lot stricter.
That’s not a thing (Re: dod)
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You can unlock most home doors within seconds even without having the key Nonetheless, we still lock our doors and thieves often break in, even though picking the lock is both safer and less likely to arouse suspicion. Your argument makes sense, but we humans aren't really rational
There's a good reason why criminals don't carry lockpicks around and that's because they're regulated, in much of the world mere possession of them outside of your residence is a criminal offence and even in places where you can carry them legally they not only show prior intent, their use in criminal activities carries a charge just like breaking and entering. I'd also argue that being stuck picking a stubborn lock…
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I would argue that the devices you carry with you are exactly the ones you shouldn’t use biometrics for. Law enforcement can force you to use biometrics to unlock a phone. They have used dead bodies to unlock phones.[0] What they can’t do is make you remember a code/password which you have “forgotten.” [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/03/22/yes-c...
> What they can’t do is make you remember a code/password which you have “forgotten.” But they can lock you up for not supplying it.