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Slain man's thumb sliced off and used to steal from his mobile payment app, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
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[โ€“] snooggums@midwest.social 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Obvious outcome was obvious.

I mean, they have been doing the use a body part from someone they killed to bypass biometrics in sci fi movies for decades. For example, Back to the Future II had a criminal gang doing the severed finger trick in 1989 and I doubt it was the earliest one.

[โ€“] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Vonnegut wrote a novel where a recluse sent all his orders to employees on paper with his fingerprints as verification. Someone mistakenly murders another person and severs their hands to obtain the fingerprints in it. I can't remember which one, though, and searching didn't help.