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Well shit, I went to verify my litany of QoL complaints that couldn’t be resolved via disabling SIP and turns out there has since been a solution for for the main one (Gatekeeper) and the remaining issues boil down to personal particularities.

So I rescind “needing” a hole hawg and correct it to “strongly prefer or desire” a hole hawg. Mainly because I shouldn’t have to rip apart a magic keyboard to embed a touch ID module into a 3D printed case for a standalone fingerprint reader module.



What about an off the shelf fingerprint reader.


Doesn’t work with touch ID.


macOS supports smart cards for unlock. And the YubiKey Bio has fingerprint authentication. So I think you can do your own kinda Touch ID with the multiprotocol YubiKey Bio version.


Thats cool to know. I already tore apart a magic keyboard and stuck the fingerprint reader in a 3D printed enclosure but I’ll definitely try that if it breaks.


What's stopping you from reverse engineering that module?


Yeah sure dude they’re going to do nation-state level silicon attacks against the key material in that sensor


Same thing that’s stopping me from building my own computer chips using a home lithography setup and clean room.




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