"We thought the catalyst idea had legs, so we read the research, found out who the authors were and tried to lock up all those people, " says Perlman.

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It was pointed at the lock and a separate piece of x-ray sensitive film was used to read the scatter.

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Samsung's likely aware of the bug already and when quizzed about the Note II vulnerability, said a fix for lock screen issues on affected "Galaxy devices" was in the works (read: they didn't say the Note II specifically).

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