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 ...

Interestingly, the three laptops examined (Dell Inspiron ... and demonstrates that nobody in his right mind should use fingerprint- or similar scanners like this for access to personal or business ...

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.

A scanner used to identify a ... access to a computer or other system is granted if the fingerprint matches the stored sample. Laptops increasingly have built-in readers. For more security ...

But if you own a little older laptop or if your laptop is missing a fingerprint scanner, you can still unlock it using your phone’s fingerprint scanner using Remote Fingerprint Unlock.