I see this in various shows and movies, and it always leaves me wondering if it’s actually gonna do them any good in not getting tracked down.
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Yes-ish. Your fingerprint is just a very thin pattern of oil on a surface. Getting the oil off completely isn’t particularly easy but you don’t need to do that, you just need to smear it around enough that it can’t be easily matched to a known fingerprint.
How well that works depends both on how thorough the person doing the smearing is, what surface they’re wiping, and how much effort the forensic team wants to put into trying to lift a print back off it.
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