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whalesalad
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Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disabl...
Take it to the logical end - you can tie up / handcuff / sedate / restrain an individual in order to get their fingerprint (or, ahem, way worse) but you cannot extract a password from someones brain.
vunderba
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> cannot extract a password from someones brain.
May I introduce you to XKCD Number 538.
https://xkcd.com/538
stavros
37 days ago
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If it's in scope to "way worse" someone to get their fingerprint, I'm sure I can be very persuasive in getting their passwords.
whalesalad
37 days ago
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You can get the fingerprint of a dead person... you cannot extract a password from a dead person.
stavros
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Of course not. You extract it right before.
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