the problem isnt weather or not its true, the problem is how likely someone is to try using a severed part any way, because it just might be FUD and a dead finger is just as good as attached. aside from that, a severed finger continues to live for a while afterward, it doesnt instantly perish. it has to metabolize its oxygen reserves.

The most popular and high priced phone has had fingerprint authentication since 2013. If there was going to be a rash of people cutting off fingers, wouldn’t it have happened by now?

If it happened would any PR department admit it? so far the tactic of waiting for someone to unlock a phone then robbing them has been effective. as soon as it becomes required behaviour it will happen. so far there are methods of hijacking a phone from its original owner, even without the phone in hand [simjacking] and as such tactics are stymied, other more brutal force methods would be required.

You really don’t think that would make the news? Why would you have to depend on the PR department? It sounds like another panic without any basis in reality.

And now, that phones are moving toward face recognition isn’t kind of a moot point?