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Re:Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable Touch... by whalesalad on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:33PM (#47809696)
Take it to the logical end - you can tie up / handcuff / sedate / restrain an individual in order to get their fingerprint (or, ahem, way worse) but you cannot extract a password from someones brain.
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Re:Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable Touch... by stavros on Friday April 17, 2026 @03:55PM (#47809882)
If it's in scope to "way worse" someone to get their fingerprint, I'm sure I can be very persuasive in getting their passwords.
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Re:Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable Touch... by whalesalad on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:12PM (#47810612)
You can get the fingerprint of a dead person... you cannot extract a password from a dead person.
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Re:Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable Touch... by stavros on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:15PM (#47810642)
Of course not. You extract it right before.
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Re:Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable Touch... by vunderba on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:58PM (#47810497)
> cannot extract a password from someones brain.

May I introduce you to XKCD Number 538.

https://xkcd.com/538

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