It’s not on an internal “drive” it’s in a firewalled section on the CPU. Further more, new I do states that hacking off somones finger won’t work either. It has to be alive with electronic biometric activity. The scanner reads more than the ridges and whorles.
Which is all fine, but it does nothing to protect data, which is my point - one does not need a fingerprint to see what the unit holds, one only needs to peel out the internal storage.
and there is ALWAYS a back door. Corporate is going to be mighty miffed if a disgruntled employee can brick all their hardware, as will joe-sixpack when something goes wrong and his spendy new gizmo is boat-anchored. There is invariably a way to reset it, and if there isn't now, there will be.