Won't help if it's an iPhone. Need a live finger for it to work.
Of course, if he has it set to brick after 10 tries, they could have used them up.
There is that as well.
I *think* the finger just needs a pulse, it doesn't have to be alive.
“Need a live finger for it to work.”
Shep or Cavuto just had a story about a woman — Indian, I think — who was on a flight with her husband. He fell asleep. She gently took his finger and unlocked his phone. It wasn’t pretty. Found out he was having an affair. Big disturbance on the plane and they had to make an emergency landing.