Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones

Re:Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock ... by tedunangst on Sunday November 25, 2018 @12:15PM (#18527711)

There's a 1 in 2^46 chance that siblings born separately will have mostly identical DNA, minus a few random mutations.

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Re:Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock ... by smolder on Sunday November 25, 2018 @06:26PM (#18529763)

Even born separately from the same parents, or from different parents with the same available genes to generate the same haploids?

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Re:Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock ... by tedunangst on Sunday November 25, 2018 @07:20PM (#18530001)

Yeah, plus some infinitesimal chance your aunt marries your uncle and your cousin comes out just like you, etc.

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Re:Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock ... by LMYahooTFY on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:05PM (#18527932)

Does that qualify as significant in any practical implementation for identity?

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Re:Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock ... by tedunangst on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:45PM (#18528166)

If ID was based on a full sequence, probably not, but it rarely is. But if you ask how can it be not unique, that's an answer.

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