How Good Is the iPhone 5s' TouchID?

[Guest]

The iPhone 5s worked correctly for a cat and a woman without fingerprints, but a group of German hackers might finally have cracked Apple's TouchID technology.

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[acadia11]

I was going to go somewhere else with this but stopped myself

 

[Rock_n_Rolla]

Dang Tom's Hardware! Reading this got me laughing really!! Good article Ahe! 🙂 Tho
this may sound a bit insulting to Apple regarding their new iPhone 5 security feature
and to all Iphone 5 fanatics out there but no offense to them really, its just that it's kinda
weird that a lot of people are giving a lot of emphasis and having issues regarding that
finger print scanner feature of the new iPhone 5, frankly saying majority of people
wouldn't save their ATM pin number or their secret password of the porn sites they are
visiting or any sensitive financial and money related info that anyone could exploit and make money out of it incase they stole someone's iphone 5 and the only thing an owner of an iphone 5 would end up in trouble is if they have a scandal sex video saved in it or a text messages indicating that the owner is cheating with her wife or husband or girlfriend or something like that. Password protecting your iphone like most proud iphone owners do is more than enough to save its owner from trouble.

In reality its also a matter of owner's discretion on how he or she could physically protect her iphone to make it safe and to lessen the chances of lost or stolen and not just solely relying on the phone's security feature which can be easily compromised
as we already know... 🙂

 

[shinkueagle]

"One of the contest's organizers, Washington D.C.-based security researcher Nick de Petrillo, scanned his penis with TouchID and then used it to unlock his phone."

- CLASSIC JUST CLASSIC!! LOL!!! NO GUY IS EVER STEALING MY PHONE.... =)

 

[teddymines]

So for Nick de Petrillo, will he have to "zip-n-whip" every time he wants to unlock and use his phone?

 

[frillybob101]

Jokes on you Tom's! They actually did manage to lift them and use it to unlock the phone.

 

[acadia11]

On Nick de Petrillo, I was thinking the girl in question was just as clever! Sadly the article did not meet my expectations.

 

[shin0bi272]

so now the NSA and FBI have this woman's fingerprints... good job apple... way to capitulate to the State.

 

[Ryan Duncan]

It's amazing how every story manages to put a spin in Apple's favor. They make it sound like the Touch ID scanner is so incredible because it can read that woman's faint fingerprints, even though other stories clearly report that a fingerprint isn't needed to set up the method.

 

[shinkueagle]

"One of the contest's organizers, Washington D.C.-based security researcher Nick de Petrillo, scanned his penis with TouchID and then used it to unlock his phone."

- CLASSIC JUST CLASSIC!! LOL!!! NO GUY IS EVER STEALING MY PHONE.... =)

 

[shinkueagle]

Seems like SIRI will be having getting a major landslide of penises soon!!! =)

 

[merikafyeah]

Already cracked:
http://consumerist.com/2013/09/23/did-these-hackers-just-win-20k-booze-a-dirty-book-by-beating-apples-touch-id/

 

[acadia11]

On Nick de Petrillo, I was thinking the girl in question was just as clever! Sadly the article did not meet my expectations.

 

[agnickolov]

@shin0bi272: The point of the article is that the security software in iOS7 ignores scan errors accepting a very weak fingerprint thus it's not secure at all.

 

[lpedraja2002]

Oh man using your penis as your touch id is genius! My desire for an iPhone 5s has risen to ridiculous levels. Just imagine the bragging rights!

 

[wildcatherder]

I can hardly wait for a performance artist to lock an iphone with the last leaf of fall.