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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
If some nefarious person manages to plan ahead enough to leave out some gummy bears knowing that I will a) pick one up and b) decide I don't need it and c) leave the now fingerprinted gummy bear
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Fortunately for me, I don't eat gummy bears, so I guess I'm safe
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No no no no no no no no, I do not know if this is a surge of humourous irony but I never meant anything like such unplausible scheme (which still, anyway, in the big numbers...) depicted by Zod: I meant that gummy bears were proven to be a sufficient medium to replicate a fingerprint.
The case I meant was an Australian school (I believe) that implemented a presence recording system based on fingerprints: the pupils soon found out it could be circumvented.
In the above case, the circumvention happened with the participation of the fingerprint owner - so it was not meant to be an overlapping parallel with the case of accessing phones.
The OP wrote «they need my fingerprint»: well I expressed that they are probably everywhere, and that the medium may be, supposedly possibly surprisingly, not a problem. The protection layer gets weaker, maybe the remaining gaps can be filled.
Of course it takes an effort to circumvent a system, and the effort is reasonably spent in front of an adequate reward. If the reward is "this bloke can transfer money through the phone", the effort is easily paid, is not it? I already know of actual cases (and, before you make the next step - which were rejected by the bank's insurance. Litigation).
EDIT: by the way - the topic were replaceable batteries.
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Originally Posted by theducks
And NO ONLINE BANKING type apps. Someone piks my phone, they just get my contacts (and some tunes)
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Good. See? As per the above, I know of cases of theft personally (EDIT3: before anybody skims too violently, WITHOUT the use of gummy bears). And I know from other networks that there are all the conditions for it to increase in the next few years. And I repeat, to the best of my information those thefts were left uncovered by that "last resort" of banks, the insurance.