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Re:Google Nexus 5x and 6P by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @03:57AM (#10302427)
> Nobody's going to bother to recreate your fingerprint,

Whyever not? They might have a copy of it lying around. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/23/us-governm...

> Yes, but is it worth spending the required resources?

When it becomes easy - and it will become easy, there's nothing basically hard about printing out some ridged plastic - it will become commonplace. And unlike stolen passwords, an attacker can be fairly sure that you haven't changed your fingers.

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