alt Hacker News> Natanson said she does not use biometrics for her devices, but after investigators told her to try, “when she applied her index finger to the fingerprint reader, the laptop unlocked.”
Curious.
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b112 • today at 2:58 PM
Very much so, because the question is... did she set it up in the past?
How did it know the print even?
dyauspitr • today at 3:33 PM
She has to have set it up before. There is no way to divine a fingerprint any other way. I guess the only other way would be a faulty fingerprint sensor but that should default to a non-entry.
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Probably enabled it at some point and forgot. Perhaps even during setup when the computer was new.