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Wonder how long until people get desperate enough to steal phones and the owner's thumb...
by 1oooqooq 2y ago
Wonder how long until people get desperate enough to steal phones and the owner's thumb...
- Mashimo 2y agoEasier to force them to unlock it then and there. Less bloody.
- agos 2y agothis has been fantasized about since the first widely available smartphones with fingerprint sensors, and to date the number of cut fingers has kept pretty low
- 1oooqooq 2y agoWay before that. Recall comic books showing a future where criminals mug people on the street and remove their "money chip" from the victims torso. It's a common dystopian trope. But so far, stolen phones are already enough to pay your rent. Wonder when it won't, but the wallet inside would buy you something even nicer.
- bugtodiffer 2y agoIts rare af