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smackay on Sept 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple's fingerprint scanner may be the biggest lea...

A stolen phone is likely to be covered in fingerprints. A small piece of sellotape and the thief has your world at their fingertips.

r00fus on Sept 10, 2013 [–]

I'd really like to see how such an exploit would work before losing sleep over it. Fingerprint tech has moved a long way forward in the past few years. If it doesn't work, we don't need to use it.

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