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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

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misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Windows laptop manufacturers will likely need to fix this one.
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    Mmm yes security by non-functionality. A pillar of the modern cybersecurity framework.

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      Can’t hack a brick 🤷

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        But you can use a brick to hack windows.

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

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          But you can use a brick to hack windows

          yes indeed, the good ol’ broken windows fallacy!

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          Something something Soviet Russia…

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

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          Found Tom Hanks’s Lemmy account.

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

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      It is called zero trust, killing functionalities is zscaler core business

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