Puzzling Perception — Sacrificing Privacy for Decreased Security?

Hitoshi Kokumai
1 min readMay 18, 2020

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How much of our privacy are we ready to sacrifice in return for DECREASED security, not for increased security?

Biometrics vendors seem to be reluctant to make it clearly known that biometrics and a default/fallback password/PIN are used together in a security-lowering ‘two-entrance’ deployment, not in a security-enhancing ‘two-layer’ deployment, in what they call “2-factor” biometrics authentication.

The outcome is that we are awkwardly talking about how much of our privacy we could sacrifice in return for the increased security when we actually need to talk about the privacy sacrificed for lowered security.

I am wondering how long we stay indifferent to this idiotic and unethical situation.

Click the link for more- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/negative-security-effect-biometrics-deployed-hitoshi-kokumai/

** There are two houses in the picture above — one with one entrance and the other with two entrances: which is friendlier to burglars who want to sneak into?

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Hitoshi Kokumai
Hitoshi Kokumai

Written by Hitoshi Kokumai

Advocate of ‘Identity Assurance by Our Own Volition and Memory’, Inventor of Expanded Password System and Founder of Mnemonic Identity Solutions Limited in UK.

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