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Re:Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords by hackinthebochs on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @03:27PM (#6478506)
>I just need a photo of the phone's owner.

As they said when they unveiled the feature and people mentioned this: give them a little credit.

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Re:Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords by mbrubeck on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @03:39PM (#6478574)
They may have said that, but Android 4.0's face unlock proved fairly easy to defeat with still photos, as many people demonstrated, e.g.:

http://www.soyacincau.com/2011/11/12/clarification-on-the-ic...

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