How Armenian gangsters blew up the fingerprint-password debate

Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan is a woman with a colorful past and a bummer of a present. She arrived this week in news stories with a string of criminal convictions and gained notoriety for pleading “no contest” to felony identity theft early this year. Her iPhone was seized from the home of her boyfriend, one Sevak Mesrobian, a member of Los Angeles-based gang Armenian Power. Her fingerprint then began its long journey to giving civil-liberties fetishists a new storyboard for their “bad touch” role-play scenes.