Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone

Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by Laforet on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:09AM (#21282203)

There are better ways to detect whether the finger is still attached to a live person.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128225-100-fingerpr...

Nevertheless it probably won't ever be completely reliable short of installing a hypodermic needle with the sensor to take a blood sample every time :)

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by war1025 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:45AM (#21283273)

Was it GATTACA where the main character used a prosthetic thumb add-on to fool the blood check every day on his way in to work?

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by djsumdog on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:10PM (#21283504)

Yep, fake hair samples and fake blood patches under the skin. There was a lot of detail written into that movie.

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by rhizome on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:21PM (#21285986)

Andrew Niccol is so good!

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by covercash on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:24PM (#21283645)

And Demolition Man where he used an eyeball on a pen to fool the optical scanner.

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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone by tracker1 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:27PM (#21285536)

I changed it... illuminate... deluminate...

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