The good news is that the issue has been fixed, and you'll want to make sure that you're running Fingerprint Manager Pro version 8.01.87 or higher. ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Type 20A7, 20A8), X1 Carbon (Type 20BS, 20BT) To make matters worse, it's accessible to all users, even those with non-administrative access on the PC. Lenovo announced a security vulnerability in the utility today, saying that Windows login credentials are encrypted "using a weak algorithm", and it contains a hard-coded password. OEMs had to build in third-party utilities, like Lenovo's Fingerprint Manager Pro that can be found on ThinkPads of the Windows 7 and 8.1 eras. But that doesn't mean that there were no PCs with fingerprint sensors before that though. When Microsoft launched Windows 10 in July 2015, it introduced Windows Hello, an integrated biometric authentication feature that supports facial recognition and fingerprint scanning.
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