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Take it to the logical end - you can tie up / handcuff / sedate / restrain an individual in order to get their fingerprint (or, ahem, way worse) but you cannot extract a password from someones brain.

cannot extract a password from someones brain.

May I introduce you to XKCD Number 538.

https://xkcd.com/538

If it's in scope to "way worse" someone to get their fingerprint, I'm sure I can be very persuasive in getting their passwords.

You can get the fingerprint of a dead person... you cannot extract a password from a dead person.

Of course not. You extract it right before.

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