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• xep@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The premier sensors enabling Windows Hello fingerprint authentication are not as secure as manufacturers had hoped. Researchers have discovered security flaws in a number of fingerprint sensors used in several laptops that work with the Windows Hello authentication feature.

  Saved you a click.

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  • subignition@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a malicious actor has physical access to your machine, you have already lost. Been that way since the dawn of computing. Full-disk encryption can potentially protect your data from unauthorized access, but it can't really stop a thief from wiping the laptop and making it their own. And if you get it back you probably want to wipe it anyway.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also can’t stop someone from cloning the disk and waiting until quantum computing is cheap enough to crack it.

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  • Nougat@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So it’s not Windows, it’s hardware.

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• soljin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is such a non story. It requires physical access to unattended devices and a sophisticated attack.

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only 1 ? Are you kidding ??

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also “may”.

    Like I’ve been workin with Windows since v1.x ( when it was really an overglorified file manager on DOS) and we’ve been complaining about it’s security issues since then.

    NT at least brought some security with actual user logins and NTFS (thanks to DEC, which created the OS that NT came from), but even then, the code running in ring 0…oh boy.

    Windows is a security problem.

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  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s the entire thing /s

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• Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

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  • hh93@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Solving security issues with the fingerprint scanner by not supporting it in the first place?

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• orclev@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me seeing headline: uh oh

  Me seeing the first sentence of article: oh, nevermind, turns out I don’t actually care.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Title creator forgot to add “again, and again, and again”.

  Oh, the holy trinity of security problems and getting hacked: Windows, Exchange, Active Directory. How would hackers cope without them?

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• muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows has a security problem. Wow im so suprised

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• BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows is the actual security problem there…

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol and how many users actually have encrypted data on win 11?

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  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nearly every enterprise machine is encrypted with bitlocker

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• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile in Linux:

  boots to emergency root shell from the grub menu

  Problem, linux?

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  • sarchar@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Full disk encryption.

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  • LoafyLemon@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Laughs in systemd

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  • mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A sure sign you won’t find anything interesting on that machine 😹

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can configure Linux such that that isn’t possible.

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  • Hexagon@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This blew my little cousin’s mind when I showed him this trick, and he realized the implications. Fun times

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• ben_dover@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you don’t say!

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ha.

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• Teknikal@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If someone has physical access I mean it’s almost a certainty they’ll get in anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s always been quite easy to remove passwords etc on windows.

  Not something I’ve done myself but yeah I’ve always took that as a given.

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