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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Your fingerprint is your fingerprint. If its possible to extract the raw data, then that can be reconstructed into your fingerprint...

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    in the early 2000s when fingerprint readers started getting popular, my coworker and I decided to test them...

    super glue fumes, printer toner and scotch tape. that's all that was ever needed to bypass the reader once you could isolate a good spot where someones finger left a good mark. like from drinking glass or a door knob

    I'm not sure if I'd ever trust a fingerprint to fully be a secure passkey

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    That's the thing - it's not possible. The fingerprint is only ever stored within the fingerprint module, with no method for retrieval. The only thing the phone sees is "did this person scan a matching fingerprint or not?"

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