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Earlier this year I was chased down the street by a man threatening to kill me. I had witnessed him running away from his previous assault victim and he decided I was his next target.At 7:30 AM he chased me for about 2 blocks, hopped the security fence at my apartment complex and attempted to break down my front door, yelling about how I was going to die in my own place.Once I made it into my apartment I tried calling 911. The problem was I was so sweaty from running that the thumb reader on my brand new Pixel smart phone couldn't read my thumbprint, refused to unlock, and I had to work past the failure to unlock notification to get put in my password while im so hopped up on fight-or-flight hormones I can barely hold still. I know that doesn't sound like much but in a situation where every half-second counts, it's a big deal.My 9mm, on the other hand, didn't have that problem. It went “click, click”, and luckily for both of us the guy was smart enough to realize I wasn't going to be a victim, so we didn't have to hear it go “boom”.He was so upset he went around the other side of the apartment complex and punched out the laundry room window.The police arrived 25 minutes later, I gave them a physical description and they left. The same guy who tried to attack me attacked at least 2 other people that day, I have no idea if he was ever caught.I will never, ever, rely on a firearm with any kind of electronic reader to function after that experience. It was bad enough that my phone delayed my 911 call. In fact, my phone won't let me put in a pin until the fingerprint reader has already been tried and failed, which is a terrible design. If I have to use it, my gun has got to work, and adding anything beyond what is required to function adds another layer of complexity that makes it more likely to fail.Edit: Lots of comments have made suggestions on the phone situation. I've completely shut down the fingerprint reader on my phone so I immediately get access to the emergency call option. The point of the story is that the fingerprint reader on a piece of the latest and greatest tech failed and had to be bypassed. If my handgun was biometrically restricted using that same technology, I would have had to use it as a club.

This was a year ago.SF airport.Officer: Miss, we need your fingerprint.Background: I don’t have a fingerprint due to specific medical conditions. I wasn’t born with this condition, but only developed it afterwards. Recently it got better; it is apparently extremely rare, and I have not seen anyone else with this condition. Because of this condition, it will always take me legit forever to get through security, because no one seems to understand the strange magic of not having a fingerprint.*place hand on the fingerprinting thing and try anyways. Nothing shows.*Me: Uh, I don’t have a fingerprint—Officer: Wait, what?*Brace myself for a stream of questions because I will look like a terrorist again*Officer: OMG are you serious? I have this exact same thing :D*Glance down at her gloves, and have brief magical moment of happiness and reconciliation*Me: Wait, so you don’t think I’m a terrorist—Officer: No, of course not. I mean I’ve had this problem and there was once…*Have a pleasant conversation of the nightmares we had to go through trying to get the fingerprint thing to work*Officer: You will have to go talk to the guy… there, but I can help explain.Me: Are you serious? Thank you so much!Officer: I mean, we fingerprint-less people have to stick together. We could even be partners in crime together.(Well, let’s just say that it was a great day.)Image cited:https://res.cloudinary.com/emazecom/image/fetch/c_limit,a_ignore,w_400,h_280/https%3A%2F%2Fuserscontent2.emaze.com%2Fimages%2Fa55409c2-b7f2-45a1-b171-29dbb601c8e1%2F326f59ede665fbad38b432d367e54444.jpgI think I lost data to my previous phone, so here’s a more recent picture, when my condition got better. I’d like to convince myself that I have a fingerprint at this point of time.

Data representing the fingerprint is written into a the Secure Enclave, which is essentially a write-only memory space like a smart card. The data is encrypted and locked to the secret, unique ID of the Secure Enclave processor. The fingerprint data can never be read. For login or authentication, the TouchID sensor will send the fingerprint information into the Secure Enclave, and the Secure Enclave will declare whether or not the fingerprint is valid with a cryptographically signed pass-fail message that cannot be spoofed.https://ssl.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdfApple has a proposed patent to store fingerprints in the cloud, but they have not announced plans to do so. The fingerprints live only in highly encrypted form on the local device, tied exclusively to that device.