Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones

Forbes ^ | Thomas Fox Brewster

[MeganC]

Link only - not sure of copyright issues with Forbes.

[Nifster]

Lancaster was where a police officer was killed recently by a gang member. It is rife with MS 13 folks. They also have drug cartel members.

[Nifster]

Thumb print only

[stevio]

Isn’t the real issue that they can just access your personal information?

[MV=PY]

Privacy and control are huge problems with any kind of bio-security.

You control your passwords and accounts. You can change them any time to create new security.

You cannot change your bio-security attributes (fingerprint, eyes can, DNA, etc.).

Once they are compromised your identity is toast.

[Nebr FAL owner]

You think that the Constitution is worth the parchment it is written on & that you live in a Constitutional Republic were the the government actually cares about obeying the law & that the judiciary gives a rats rectal orifice about your rights . would be mistaken.

[bgill]

Texas has done thumb prints for years.

You might be surprised next time you have to go in to renew your license.

[Popman]

-——California, right thumb.——

I guess I will never drive in California because I would never submit to a fingerprint for the privilege....

A CC permit is a different story..

[contrarian]

Aren’t everyone’s prints already on file through the DMV?

Not in NC, at least not the last time I renewed. I don’t remember them ever getting it.
If you have a concealed carry permit in N.C. they have your fingerprints on file..

[Blurb2350]

They say a dog’s nose print -— the pattern of tiny wrinkles and ridges in the nose leather -— is as unique as a human fingerprint. Have your pooch nuzzle the phone!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Since the iPhone is encrypted, they need either a fingerprint (if you use one) to unlock your phone to access it, or they need a password. Courts have ruled (at least one) that they can make you give a fingerprint. They cannot force you legally to give a password.

[Myrddin]

They would be very disappointed if they tried that with me. I had the misfortune to swap my CAC card and my company crypto card one afternoon. I inadvertantly entered the wrong PIN and disabled my CAC. It had taken the better part of an hour on the DEERS terminal in Omaha to get a good enough capture to make a CAC card. The recovery was equally painful. It took 45 minutes with a skilled operator to make the 80% match required to reset my pin.

My Samsung Galaxy S6 supports a fingerprint reader, but my fingerprints are too hard to reliably capture for this use. Now, I have another reason to avoid it.

[zeugma]

All you have to do is turn your phone off. if it is an iphone, you will need the fingerprint AND a password.

[stevio]

Hmm.....

[William Tell]

DoughtyOne said: "I decided about 45 years ago not to do anything illegal"

I wonder at what age Patrick Henry decided to do illegal things? Or George Washington, Adams, Revere, etc.

I think our Founders expected to create a nation of moral people who didn't need a government designed to prevent the commission of crime through limitations on freedom.

The guys who wrote Brave New World and 1984 weren't wrong about the prospects of future tyranny. They just didn't get the dates right.