Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
by tracker1 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:25PM
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One place I worked at, the fingerprint reader for security was horrible... you had to get your finger in the exact same position. Sometimes it'd work in the morning, but not in the afternoon after lunch. I thought it was funny how my phone could figure it out, but the building system couldn't... of course the building only took two sample scans, while my phone will take 6 or so.
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Re:Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
by ineedasername on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:51PM
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Maybe the phones are only "figuring it out" by having very loose acceptance criteria for the correct pattern. For all we know, the 6 scans could be mostly marketing fluff to give the appearance of robust matching.