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Re:That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as Y... by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:58AM (#14086837)
Sigh. I clicked, hoping to learn something. But in the fourth paragraph I read:

The researchers did not test their approach with real phones

That's when I stopped.

What, nobody at NYU or Michigan State could afford to buy some "real phones" to check out their theories???

What fucking bullshit!!!

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Re:That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as Y... by apetresc on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:42PM (#14099906)
Yeah, exactly. "Did not test with real phones" is journalist code for "does not actually work in reality, but why throw away a perfectly good headline?"
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