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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 81 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reading the article it doesn’t sound like it’s Microsoft’s issue but the vendor’s implementation and lack of using the secure communication protocol.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

"vendors implementation" rings immediate alarm bells...

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it sounds like microsoft's own laptops dont implement the spec properly!

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft doesn't make fingerprint readers.

[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yea, but they sourced the parts from a vendor, and still didn't make sure the vendor was properly following the spec.

Just goes to show how complicated it can be!

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Sounds like Microsoft doesn’t make anything