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		tsol 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone becau... Seems like it would be hard to fake. The was she tells it she put her finger on the pad and the OS unlocked the account. Sounds very difficult to do

operator-name 26 days ago [–]

I think they mean if they already have her fingerprint from somewhere else, and a secret backdoor into the laptop. Then they could login, setup biometrics and pretend they had first access when she unlocked it. All without revealing their backdoor.

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