Post #782871
2026-03-19 20:20 UTC
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@VonReposti@feddit.dk 2026-03-19 20:40
No, it is the OS verifying what you know. The OS doesn’t care if you gave your password to anyone, just that whoever is opening the PC knows the password. Verifying who you are would be biometric verification or ID verification. In my case I require a password and a hardware key on login. That is still not verifying that I am myself, only that I know the password, and have the hardware key. If I added fingerprint scanning then I would have the holy trifecta and only then verify who I am.
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@drayva@lemmy.ml 2026-03-19 20:43
I think there’s some confusion here about the concept of “identification”. A date of birth is generally considered identifying information because it can be used to implicate other information about your real-life self, and it can have real-life consequences for you if it is known. It discrimantes and differentiates you from other individuals in ways that have real-life implications. What does a password identify about you? Well it verifies that you are “the same person who set the password on the OS”. So to compare and contrast, A DOB identifies you as… a person who may not be allowed to install certain programs or access certain information/content, based on age a person in a demographic who may be amenable to certain advertisements (if your system is compromised/leaked and age retrieved) someone who may be desireable by predators (in the context of investigation or stalking) someone who is not a specific other individual (ie it narrows you down from a pool of individuals) Having entered a password identifies you as… the same person who set up the OS ??? - feel free to let me know if you’ve got anything here. To consider the act of entering a password as an “identity” is pretty bizarre, and frankly the notion seems contrived just to be argumentative.