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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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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

remove the password from a Windows account

That used to be true, but no longer works

[–] jonne@infosec.pub -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Regardless, you can just read what's on the disk anyway, so you don't need to be able to log in.

[–] randombullet@feddit.de -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Unless bitlocker is enabled by default, which is becoming more and more common unfortunately...

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

unfortunately

Unfortunately? How is encryption by default a bad thing? It's amazingly good at protecting data from people who wouldn't even know what encryption is.

The number of lost laptops in coffee shops protected by BitLocker is insane.