Just before leaving on a trip he bought a laptop on the cheap. He didn’t pay much attention to the features and was disappointed it didn’t have a fingerprint scanner. Working in Linux he uses ...

Being able to unlock almost any Windows PC with a fingerprint scanner on your phone is pretty useful, especially if your PC ...

In 2008, the then German interior minister, [Wolfgang Schäuble] had his fingerprint reproduced by members of the German Chaos Computer Club ... the fingerprint reader’s operation.

Keeping a security lock on any of your electronic devices is an important thing to do. Even with laptops, it’s important to keep a password or PIN so that others cannot unlock it unauthorised.