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I don't have a lot of faith in Windows Hello either.

My 6 year old daughter was able to log into my admin account. They weren't even trying to do that, just opened the laptop and it's all like "Hello, Brian!" and logged into my account.

Howdy is specifically made for IR cameras, normal cameras are not officially supported. Windows Hello works almost exactly the same way.

I didn't try Howdy and so I'm not sure if and how it's enforced, but literally the second sentence in the README says it uses the IR camera too.

> Both Windows Hello, and the Mac equivalent, can't be fooled by photos

This is false, I've bypassed it on a very modern laptop using a phone picture.