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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed

www.theverge.com

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Windows laptop manufacturers will likely need to fix this one.
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    142•2 years ago

    Mmm yes security by non-functionality. A pillar of the modern cybersecurity framework.

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      39•2 years ago

      Works for my webcam. Tbh I’d like someone to hack it, would mean they would’ve written drivers for it

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      17•2 years ago

      It is called zero trust, killing functionalities is zscaler core business

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      94•2 years ago

      Can’t hack a brick 🤷

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        69•2 years ago

        But you can use a brick to hack windows.

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          5•2 years ago

          Something something Soviet Russia…

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          But you can use a brick to hack windows

          yes indeed, the good ol’ broken windows fallacy!

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          6•2 years ago

          When you could have said crack, but instead said hack.

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        17•2 years ago

        And this is why I am typing this on a 1921 Royal No. 10 typewriter.

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          9•2 years ago

          Found Tom Hanks’s Lemmy account.

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