She has to have set it up before. There is no way to divine a fingerprint any other way. I guess the only other way would be a faulty fingerprint sensor but that should default to a non-entry.

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quesera 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> faulty fingerprint sensor

The fingerprint sensor does not make access control decisions, so the fault would have to be somewhere else (e.g. the software code branch structure that decides what to do with the response from the secure enclave).

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giraffe_lady 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Could be a parallel construction type thing. They already have access but they need to document a legal action by which they could have acquired it so it doesn't get thrown out of court.

I think this is pretty unlikely here but it's within the realm of possibility.

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tsol 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Seems like it would be hard to fake. The was she tells it she put her finger on the pad and the OS unlocked the account. Sounds very difficult to do

	▲	operator-name 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think they mean if they already have her fingerprint from somewhere else, and a secret backdoor into the laptop. Then they could login, setup biometrics and pretend they had first access when she unlocked it. All without revealing their backdoor.