This week's Mythbusters rocked: it proves that thumbprint scanners are easily defeated. These are the things that Besy Buy, Dell, et al, are promoting in their commercials as high security for new laptops. While the Mythbusters say they left out key steps on how to do it, the most complex things (lifting a fingerprint with superglue and etching a circuit board) are easy to do, there's plenty of instructions online, and with practice could be done in a half hour or less. Heck, you used to be able to buy circuit-board etching kits at Radio Shack. It goes to show that locks, even the most complex ones, are a deterrent, not an prevention.
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