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Lenovo's craptastic fingerprint scanner has a hardcoded password

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: WTF ????

" there is always the chance of the “something you have” part being stolen along with the actual device being secured."

Which is why a 2fa token number should always be accompanied by a pin to gain access. That way even if someone puts their mitts on the seed file they still have to guess the pin.

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