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Fingerprint-Protected Phones Vulnerable To Inkjet Attack (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the ordinary-household-materials dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Two researchers have come up with a new method of hacking smartphones that use fingerprint biometrics to protect and lock the user's data. Their method only needs a regular inkjet printer, three AgIC silver conductive ink cartridges, a normal black ink cartridge, and special AgIC paper. The entire attack takes no more than 15 minutes. Current tests only included a Samsung Galaxy S6 and a Huawei Hornor 7. The researchers said that while the Samsung was easy to crack, the Huawei phone needed more tries.

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  1. Hey atheists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why do atheists have funerals?

    Why do worshippers of atheism get dressed up in suits, dress up the CORPSE ITSELF in a suit, hold moments of silence/reflection, all in a formal ceremony for what the atheist religion dictates is nothing more than decomposing matter? Theists' belief of man's transcendent worth answers why they do.

    What is the atheists' answer?

    1. Re:Hey atheists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Obvious troll is obvious.

      Nonetheless, I'll bite. Atheism isn't a religion. But I don't even know that funerals have a religious purpose in mainstream religions.

      If a deceased person is simply decomposing matter, then there is no point. But there is a form of afterlife that atheists agree exists. That person has a legacy and those who are alive have memories and emotional connections to that person. A funeral honors that legacy, allows the living to share their memories, to mourn the person's passing, and to celebrate the person's life.

      But even religions that focus on an afterlife tend not to use funerals for religious purposes. For example, I'm Roman Catholic. There's a particularly strong connection between the living and the dead in Catholicism. The living can help souls in Purgatory get to Heaven. And the souls in Heaven (the saints) can pray to God to intercede on behalf of the living. The funeral doesn't serve any of these purposes, though. A Catholic funeral serves the same purpose as an atheist funeral. The living help souls in Purgatory get to Heaven through prayer and the holy mass. The living use prayer to ask the saints to pray to God on our behalf.

      Basically, you did a particularly bad job of trolling. Your post is very offtopic. It also completely misunderstands the purpose of a funeral, whether for a religious person or an atheist. Funerals are for the living.

    2. Re: Hey atheists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      My body can be harvested or left for the crows. I don't care, i'm dead, but my family might.