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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] regbin_ 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can choose not to use it even if Linux supports it.

[–] elbarto777 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. I know that.

[–] regbin_ 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then I really don't see how it's a plus. Smaller kernel size? lol

[–] elbarto777 1 points 11 months ago

The plus is that I don't even need to think about it.

My phone tries to trick me to enable fingerprint authentication every few months. My laptop? Perfection.