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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by yo-code-sucks on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:26PM (#12222972)
Unfortunately every fingerprint reader outputs a unique hash per fingerprint, which is why if you break it you can loose all of your data. So even with a thiefs hash's you'd still need the thief to prove it was them.
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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by newscracker on Sunday August 07, 2016 @12:29PM (#12242518)
I'm being a bit pedantic about the "every fingerprint reader" mention and am assuming that mention also includes non-Apple devices. HTC and Samsung phones have, in the past, stored fingerprint images in an accessible location. What's worse was that the fingerprint image would be refreshed with every swipe/finger touch!

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/10/htc-finge...

[2]: http://betanews.com/2015/08/11/htc-and-samsung-phones-storin...

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