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Stealing Fingerprints (Schneier on Security)
2015-10-02 11:35

The news from the Office of Personnel Management hack keeps getting worse. In addition to the personal records of over 20 million US government employees, we've now learned that the hackers stole fingerprint files for 5.6 million of them. This is fundamentally different from the data thefts we regularly read about in the news, and should give us pause before...


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