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		sneak on Nov 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to add biometric authentication to your webpag... The article is using "biometric authentication" to refer to WebAuthn-based authentication (which on lots of modern OSes can use biometrics to authenticate access to the keys used for WebAuthn). It is indeed hard to steal WebAuthn keys out of modern secure mobile devices. It's not talking about stealing biometric data.

thunfischbrot on Nov 24, 2022 [–]

That's actually a good point.

Though to me this is also an inaccuracy in the article which would better be clarified.

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