Post #783000
2026-03-19 20:40 UTC
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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@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 21:13
If you think about it like that none of the proposed laws verify anything, even the worst one just verified you logged into the account with credentials for someone who put their DOB in the age bracket returned by the API