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@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 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

@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Windows laptop manufacturers will likely need to fix this one.
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    99•2 years ago

    Can’t hack a brick 🤷

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      73•2 years ago

      But you can use a brick to hack windows.

      • fmstrat
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        6•2 years ago

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

      • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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        6•2 years ago

        Something something Soviet Russia…

      • @demonsword@lemmy.world
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        5•2 years ago

        But you can use a brick to hack windows

        yes indeed, the good ol’ broken windows fallacy!

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      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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