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Biometric Lock: How a 12-Year-Old's Finger Opened a Gun Safe

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Analyzing the critical firmware flaws behind biometric lock bypasses highlights a severe architectural failure in consumer biometrics: the silent "default-to-open" state. Recent recalls of over 60,000 biometric gun safes by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) revealed that unpaired, un-en…

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  1. 2026-09-26 01:59 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Biometric Lock: How a 12-Year-Old's Finger Opened a Gun Safe

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