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To: Hodar
The intent of the fingerprint reader isn’t necessarily to safeguard any data.

I understand the intent - not that I believe the machine is truly a brick by the way... There is always a way to circumvent the technology... ALWAYS.

For instance, I just woke up a bricked notebook, and it was truly an art to get it done - Way more white papers and way more forum reading than the box was ever worth... but now that I know how, I know how.

But that aside, the OP was definitely leading one to the idea that the cops could *make* you hand over data by forcing you to print the box, where they cannot force you to divulge the pwd. My statement went toward the idea that it is a moot point, because the data can be discovered by other means anyway... Like circumventing the fingerprint reader by removing the internal storage and accessing directly.

Such tech might keep a snoopy neighbor or wife out of your junk, but it isn't going to be kept away from a halfway decent hacker with his hands on the machine.

27 posted on 09/14/2013 2:26:13 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1
No, that wasn't my point. here's the point from the original article at wired.com:

Take this hypothetical example coined by the Supreme Court: If the police demand that you give them the key to a lockbox that happens to contain incriminating evidence, turning over the key wouldn’t be testimonial if it’s just a physical act that doesn’t reveal anything you know.

However, if the police try to force you to divulge the combination to a wall safe, your response would reveal the contents of your mind — and so would implicate the Fifth Amendment. (If you’ve written down the combination on a piece of paper and the police demand that you give it to them, that may be a different story.)

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/the-unexpected-result-of-fingerprint-authentication-that-you-cant-take-the-fifth/

28 posted on 09/14/2013 2:44:38 PM PDT by quimby
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