Recent content by flong777

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    First iPhone Fingerprint Reader Hacker Could Win Cash, Booze

    1. "These men and women believed that anyone willing to lift fingerprints from a surface and reproduce the prints on a sufficiently pliable material could bypass the new iPhone's fingerprint-scanning authentication system." Ummm NO! The sensor is designed to only read living tissue according to...
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    iOS 7 Flaw Lets Anyone Use Locked iPhone

    Wow this is the third negative article about the iPhone I have read today on Tom's Hardware. What is it with you guys, do you just hate Apple? I have IOS7 and yes Siri has limited function when the phone is locked, but hell it doesn't make the phone vulnerable. In fact, if I forget to open my...
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    Is iPhone Fingerprint Security Secure At All? (Op-Ed)

    I am not sure what the point of this article is? Here's a quote, "One can easily imagine a maliciously coded video game, just legitimate enough to slip under the walls of Apple's App Store, that, in practice, can read fingerprints directly and shuffle them off to parts unknown." OK, but...
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    Cord Cutting Dilemma: Should You Keep Cable TV?

    I installed and antenna a few years ago and I have never looked back. The ONLY downside is that I cannot get ESPN for sports - but I am not going to pay $100 a month for ESPN. Most of the major sports events for Arizona (where I live) are carried over the air (except for the Phoenix Suns, but I...