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inukun··on Victorinox offers hackers £100,000 challenge
The real problem is not that you could break the encryption (although in most models it's laughably easy to circumvent it), but that you can just create fake fingerprints and use them to unlock it.

Everyone leaves fingerprints all the time - just find one, scan it and you can create your own. If anyone's interested, the german magazine c't had an article about it.

inukun··on Codility - Automated tests of programming skills
Why? After all, you are going to use the internet while on the job too. Just making the problems more difficult should fix that problem.
inukun··on Codility - Automated tests of programming skills
You can do whatever you want - it just has to return the correct result.

It isn't that difficult to solve, but I like the idea.