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1. fprintd is just an API provider. It is neither able nor responsible to ensure attention from the user. 2. The scoring is bogus: - this requires the user to touch the reader - it requires showing an (invalid) excuse to the user for the necessity of doing so - it requires starting another hidden authentication operation before doing the above All combined, it is really not easy to "exploit" if you even want to call it that. Because touching the reader means doing an authentication, and the user should be aware of the operation they started in the first place. I am closing this as not a bug and does not even deserve a CVE in my view. If anything, it is a configuration issue because doing authentication in a terminal can be invisible to the user. You can pick that battle with authselect if you want to.