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Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones
Forbes ^ | Thomas Fox Brewster

Posted on 10/17/2016 2:58:02 PM PDT by MeganC

Link only - not sure of copyright issues with Forbes.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


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To: MeganC

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.


41 posted on 10/17/2016 5:18:19 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: bgill

Thumb print only


42 posted on 10/17/2016 5:19:32 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

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


43 posted on 10/17/2016 5:21:48 PM PDT by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: MeganC

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.


44 posted on 10/17/2016 5:50:06 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: MeganC

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.


45 posted on 10/17/2016 5:55:32 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: Popman

Texas has done thumb prints for years.

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


46 posted on 10/17/2016 6:14:30 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Excellence

-——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..


47 posted on 10/17/2016 6:17:02 PM PDT by Popman
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To: MUDDOG

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..


48 posted on 10/17/2016 6:24:21 PM PDT by contrarian (Vote in the last free election we will ever have.)
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To: cgbg

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!


49 posted on 10/17/2016 6:25:53 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: stevio

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.


50 posted on 10/17/2016 6:34:02 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: MeganC
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.

51 posted on 10/17/2016 6:40:30 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

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


52 posted on 10/17/2016 7:15:19 PM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Hmm.....


53 posted on 10/17/2016 7:28:45 PM PDT by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: DoughtyOne
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.

54 posted on 10/17/2016 10:08:29 PM PDT by William Tell
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