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Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

From Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Re: Debian and fingerprint readers
Date 2021-02-25 07:40 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote:

> Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now
> improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default?

Biometrics are almost always used incorrectly and often insecure or
easily hackable, it would be better to not subject our users to those
attacks by default.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-02-24 22:20 +0100
  Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-02-25 07:40 +0100
    Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-04 16:40 +0100
      Re: Debian and fingerprint readers William Bonnet <william@wbonnet.net> - 2021-03-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
  Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 00:20 +0100
    Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
      Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2021-03-05 12:20 +0100
        Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> - 2021-03-07 16:20 +0100
      Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-06 00:30 +0100
        Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 00:30 +0100
          Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 17:30 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-03-07 03:40 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-07 11:00 +0100
              Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-03-07 13:40 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-08 18:40 +0100
        Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-06 16:10 +0100

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