The whole thing boils down to the Feds wanting warrants to authorize fishing expeditions...meaning they want to be able to get a warrant to allow them to look for things they don't know about and then be able to use those things as evidence against you. How the hell is that Constitutional????
A good reason never to use the fingerprint unlock. I do not.
I don’t see Forbes on the copyright list.
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Don’t use finger print security.
Time to have an OS with multiple fingerprints in it. If you give the correct finger or pattern of fingers you get in. Use the wrong ones and it wipes the phone (with a cloth?). Then the FBI not only needs your prints, they also need to know left middle, left index, left middle to get in. Use the right index and the data goes away.
which is why I do not use a fingerprint to unlock my phone.
General warrants are illegal.
Aren’t everyone’s prints already on file through the DMV?
I found a great work-around on this. It allows me to still use my fingerprint for access.
I decided about 45 years ago not to do anything illegal.
I’ve screwed up a couple of times since then, but my phone would never figure in, and I just don’t bother doing things I don’t want to pay the penalty for.
Law enforcement is able to access my phone with no problem.
The whole thing boils down to the Feds wanting warrants to authorize fishing expeditions...meaning they want to be able to get a warrant to allow them to look for things they don’t know about and then be able to use those things as evidence against you. How the hell is that Constitutional????
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Are you sure? A warrant is supposed to state specifically what they are looking for.
Fingerprints as passcodes were rendered ineffectual by the courts almost immediately. Bodily data (fingerprints, urine, dna, blood, etc) are considered material evidence and not covered by self incrimination protections.
The problem with the warrant is not that it asked for finger prints, but that it lacked specificity regarding whose fingerprints and why as well as what they expected to find as a result.
The concern we should have is that a judge signed a half assed general warrant instead of refusing and telling the LEO’s to get their shit together.
Ineffective and lazy judges are a dark stain on the robes of lady Justice.
Bttt.
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The headline was a little scary - it implied the Feds went into a building full of employees - it appears it was in fact a ‘home’. It’s not clear if they had finger printing equipment - or just asked for individuals to open their phones.
Maybe a drug bust or illegal immigrant trafficking - I would like to think that not all law enforcement has been corrupted by the Clinton Comey crowd.
This is tyranny.
These people got off lucky.
The Clinton JustUs Department will be taking fingers instead of just the prints.
And don’t even think of what they will do for security systems that use iris scans.
Newbie here on this stuff.
Will dog’s paw prints work?
I dare the feds to get my chow chow’s paw prints!
It isn’t, but the communist judiciary refuses to honor our Constitutional rights.
Lancaster was where a police officer was killed recently by a gang member. It is rife with MS 13 folks. They also have drug cartel members.
Privacy and control are huge problems with any kind of bio-security.
You control your passwords and accounts. You can change them any time to create new security.
You cannot change your bio-security attributes (fingerprint, eyes can, DNA, etc.).
Once they are compromised your identity is toast.
You think that the Constitution is worth the parchment it is written on & that you live in a Constitutional Republic were the the government actually cares about obeying the law & that the judiciary gives a rats rectal orifice about your rights . would be mistaken.
My Samsung Galaxy S6 supports a fingerprint reader, but my fingerprints are too hard to reliably capture for this use. Now, I have another reason to avoid it.