Estonia's e-residency program expands abroad

Re:Estonia's e-residency program expands abroad by higherpurpose on Saturday April 04, 2015 @12:45PM (#9321306)

Step 1: get Estonian e-citizenship by giving them your fingerprint to keep in their centralized database

Step 2: NSA, GCHQ, Russia and China steal the whole fingerprint database, which includes your fingerprint

Step 3: Now your iPhone/Android phone that uses fingerprint reader is vulnerable to hacking

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Re:Estonia's e-residency program expands abroad by retroam on Saturday April 04, 2015 @12:59PM (#9321355)

From personal experience, the US has been fingerprinting non-US nationals at the airports for a decade now. So NSA has had such a database for a significant time. However, I still doubt they have figured out to hack the iPhone using said database. But this is just my personal opinion...

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Re:Estonia's e-residency program expands abroad by vinay427 on Saturday April 04, 2015 @01:04PM (#9321367)

Minor nitpick, but as Canada is not part of the US visa waiver program, Canadian citizens are also exempt from fingerprinting when entering the US.

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