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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by zentiggr on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:41AM (#21281390)
Unless there's been a foundational shakeup, I'd be wary of Tizen. There have been numerous reports of horribly shoddy development practices and massive bugs.

Never used a Samsung myself so I'm just remembering stories.

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by rjzzleep on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:30PM (#21288154)
I'm not at all surprised. The whole meego, tizen whatever development process was a complete mess. But then again android was too. I still think it's unfortunate.

But, you can you elaborate?

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by zentiggr on Friday October 18, 2019 @01:23PM (#21293255)
Not very well. Months ago I came across a couple of references to egregious security problems and outright horrid development practices, of which I've forgotten 95% of the content and only have the left over sense of "nope, don't ever want to rely on that ever".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752446

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