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by robinson-wall 2433 days ago
Is there any indication of whether this only happens if the screen protector was present prior to training the fingerprint?

> After buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could unlock the phone.

This suggests that an attack of "put a malicious screen protector on phone to unlock" is possible. I'm curious whether there was any re-training after applying the protector.

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Ah, here's a video of a note 10, which has the same fingerprint sensor as an s10, being fooled by a gel _case_ after being trained with a fingerprint normally.

https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/1184475413252210688