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A fingerprint is only going to stop a very opportunistic attacker. Someone who already has your desktop and app password and physical access to your desktop can probably get a fingerprint off a glass, cup or something else.

The people most of us work with have physical access to our computers and they could probably shoulder surf a short password (use a password manager!). I don't imagine any of them could successfully lift a fingerprint sufficiently well to fool a biometric reader. It's looks easy in perfect conditions on YouTube but in the real world it's a bit harder.

I hope not anyway because my office has fingerprint access.




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