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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed (www.theverge.com)
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[–] randombullet@feddit.de -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 21 points 10 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.