- Police in Largo, Florida, went to a funeral home to press a dead man's finger against his phone in a failed attempt to unlock the handset.
- This was not the first attempt by police in the United States to unlock a phone in this way.
- Other tech options exist for law enforcement to hack phones that don't require corpses.
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Florida police failed to unlock phone using a dead man's finger — but corpses may still help in hacking handsets
Police in Largo, Florida, went to a funeral home to press a dead man's finger against his phone in a failed attempt to unlock the handset.
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