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@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed

www.theverge.com

@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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Windows laptop manufacturers will likely need to fix this one.
  • @Gork@lemm.ee
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    146•1 year ago

    Mmm yes security by non-functionality. A pillar of the modern cybersecurity framework.

    • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      98•1 year ago

      Can’t hack a brick 🤷

      • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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        71•1 year ago

        But you can use a brick to hack windows.

        • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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          6•1 year ago

          Something something Soviet Russia…

        • fmstrat
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          6•1 year ago

          When you could have said crack, but instead said hack.

        • @demonsword@lemmy.world
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          5•1 year ago

          But you can use a brick to hack windows

          yes indeed, the good ol’ broken windows fallacy!

      • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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        17•1 year ago

        And this is why I am typing this on a 1921 Royal No. 10 typewriter.

        • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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          9•1 year ago

          Found Tom Hanks’s Lemmy account.

    • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      40•1 year ago

      Works for my webcam. Tbh I’d like someone to hack it, would mean they would’ve written drivers for it

    • @Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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      It is called zero trust, killing functionalities is zscaler core business

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