Your Android fingerprint scanner can be brute forced in 45 minutes...

[Missourian]

It takes some equipment...but it isn't all that much...

"Fake fingerprints can be used to unlock some Android phones, according to Tencent's Yu Chen and Zhejiang University's Yiling He (via Ars Technica).

The researchers have discovered that two zero-day vulnerabilities which are present in the fingerprint authentication framework of nearly all smartphones can be exploited to unlock Android handsets."

Inexpensive tool can be used to easily break into Android phones

A $15 printed circuit board is all an attacker would need to unlock some Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Huawei phones.

www.phonearena.com

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Good luck with that. I don't use fingerprint scanners!!!!

You're stupider than Biden if you do!!!

 

[multivita-man]

Fuck biometrics

 

[hjmick]

How about this...

Don't lose your fucking phone!

And sure as shit don't store anything financial or vital on the damn thing...

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

How about this...

Don't lose your fucking phone!

And sure as shit don't store anything financial or vital on the damn thing...

Yeah..this guy took it a little too far:

MSN

Rajesh Vishwas was suspended from his government position after he drained 2.1 million liters of water from a reservoir to find his phone, according to the International Business Times.
Vishwas, a government official in the Indian state of Chhatttisgarh, was reportedly at a picnic near the Paralkot reservoir on May 21 and dropped his phone into the 10-foot-deep water while taking a selfie.

 

[hjmick]

Yeah..this guy took it a little too far:

MSN

Rajesh Vishwas was suspended from his government position after he drained 2.1 million liters of water from a reservoir to find his phone, according to the International Business Times.
Vishwas, a government official in the Indian state of Chhatttisgarh, was reportedly at a picnic near the Paralkot reservoir on May 21 and dropped his phone into the 10-foot-deep water while taking a selfie.

Proof that there are dumbasses everywhere...

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Proof that there are dumbasses everywhere...

He did take it to a higher level~

 

[hjmick]

He did take it to a higher level~

I almost hope he found his phone... almost...

 

[Dekster]

I never use the fingerprint lock. Mine are usually covered in chocolate or powdered sugar or grease or some other shit when anybody calls. Without fail, as son as my hands are in something, someone will call.

 

[Thunk]

Just take his phone AND his finger

 

[Oddball]

How about this...

Don't lose your fucking phone!

And sure as shit don't store anything financial or vital on the damn thing...

Nothing worth stealing on any of my electronic gizmos.

 

[fncceo]

Oh no! Someone might gain access to my Brony porn ...