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Comment by mkal_tsr | Hacker News Reader

I think Taylor Swift said it best,

Remember: Fingerprint locks are convenient, but they discard your ability to "forget" or refuse to unlock a device. They remove consent.

[ source - https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity / https://imgur.com/a/1PDRJ / ]

Can anyone intent on downvoting explain what is factually wrong or misleading about the quote in the picture? Just because it's on a picture doesn't make it less valid.

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If the subject you'd like to bring to discussion is the quote, post the quote. If you want to bring up a humorous Twitter account dealing with security concerns, post the Twitter account. Reposting a meme posted by that account doesn't serve either purpose very well.

If the subject you'd like to bring to discussion is no humour on HN, post no humour on HN. If you want to bring up your confusion about how Taylor Swift and security go together, just say so. Gruntling away in your post doesn't serve either purpose very well. You're being mean to parent.

I posted the original source from the creator, the Twitter account which made the Imgur album. I have swapped the .jpg with the text quote ... I just find it odd HN is so primary-source averse.

Wait, what? I'm out of the loop there. Is that a meme, or is Taylor Swift really saying this?

Its a time honored tradition, see Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics [*]

http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

It's a meme by that twitter account

Is it a meme if it's just text on an image? It has to at least be multiple people doing it to be a meme.

I just chose the not 100%-false option of the two ;-)

I didn't downvote, but your post is off topic.

If the article was about a case where a person was mandated to unlock their phone because it is only protected by a fingerprint scan, (and of course a person cannot "forget" their fingerprint like they can a password), then your quote would have been on topic.

Yeah, the quote is about fingerprints, but it's really orthogonal to the topic of the article, which is that fingerprints can be "cracked" just like passwords. That's not what the quote you posted is about. The quote is about the fifth amendment (of the US constitution): https://www.eff.org/issues/know-your-rights#17

You don't think the ability to use photographs of hands/fingers and used for fingerprint readers is relevant to a quote about using fingerprints as passwords has a security gap of consent? I'm sorry but what? We've seen many times that fingerprint readers can be fooled, and pointing out that pictures of hands/fingers could be used against you is highly relevant to a decision of securing something with fingerprints or not.

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