Login in the forum using your Finger Print

[samcrypto]

I really dont like the idea. Imagine someone getting access to the database with 100.000s of fingerprints.
This forum is against KYC, except during April fools day, and this suggestion is even more invasive.  

You can learn a lot from the comments below and above your post, they keep on explaining that your fingerprints doesn't send to anyone which makes this topic more possible if ever the technology becomes high-tech. Though I also doubt that this can happen in just a year or even 5 years from now but the future will be more good for sure.

See this one with a great explanation about your concern.

Most users are posting the same cons against this without knowing how the technology works.
As I said, the fingerprint is not sent anywhere. And the username or email must be entered too.

Simplifying things: you can think of your fingerprint as the password that encrypts the private key used to sign a message. Only the public key (during registration) and the signed message (during logging in) is sent to the server along with the username or email. The private key and fingerprint is not sent, the same as your wallet password and address private keys are never sent anywhere.

Do check this site if you're interested (and do read it before posting here): https://webauthn.io/

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Selling your fingerprint data for convenience, though... hm...

Yep, nope, not happening for me.  It's great that technology has advanced this far, but we're rapidly getting into 1984 territory here.  A website or program or whatever would have to be pretty damn important for me to use my fingerprint to access.  If bitcointalk were to require something like that, sorry to say but I'd be outta here. 

As far as 2FA and all that happy horseshit, ask Binance how that protected them from hacks and how paranoid their customers are right now.  I understand the difference between personal security and a website's security (more or less), but some of these measures are just overkill.  Fingerprint/retinal scans/facial recognition tech should be reserved for people who can launch nuclear missiles...not for a freakin' discussion forum.

[tranthidung]

A website or program or whatever would have to be pretty damn important for me to use my fingerprint to access.

Nowadays, laptop, smart phones, tablets and some other stuffs have options to setup and use Finger Prints to access. Personally, I have never used this option, that is terrible  in my opinion. At the first glance, it looks like bring more security, but in worst case, we might get big troubles with such security option. Who knows when the Finger Print Features on our devices get troubles, then we might have to spend a lot of time to solve it. I don't like that sort of Finger Print Trap.