Is it? If say the public has a pretty good intuitive idea of the security properties of fingerprints. Better than the author here anyway who seems to think fingerprints are as easy to copy as usernames.

The problem is with how security is depcited and movies and television series. Cinmatographic Things will always recive more eye-candy value and feature bigger.

So to educated the audience security wise, one would need to raise the eyecandy value of good passwords.