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Why the oems resist giving proper drivers for fingerprint😡 https://lemy.lol/post/24413858

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man, I knew fingerprint encryption was bad but that is nuts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fwiw they’re able to do the same thing by the sound of someone typing a password across the room. Not advocating for fingerprints or anything, just these exotic hacks are everywhere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

...my memory was that this only worked after the routine had been trained on your typing idiosyncrasies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The thing is, one of those attacks requires you to type your password. The other requires you to touch something.