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It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good chance it was just putting the dead dudes finger on the scanner lmao

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not how that works

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Unless disabled by timeout, restart, or otherwise manually I'm curious to know why that would be?

Of course the dude had to know this was a one way trip, I'd have wiped everything but then again maybe they didn't care at that point.

[–] willsenior@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

It is hit or miss. The fingerprint button is also looking for the electrical signals of a living person. Apparently, that doesn't end immediately upon death.