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 couldn't the same maliciously coded game be slipped into uncover the four number digits to enter the phone? And for that matter, four digit security is not very secure. It as if the author of the article has forgotten that this is a smart phone, not a CIA computer.
That being said, from what I understand, from what I have heard, Apple's smart phone security is the best in the business. Not even the NSA has cracked their protection codes. In one article I read, the NSA had been reduced to breaking into the computers that the iPhones phones synced with to get information from the phone. I fully expect Apple's fingerprint security will be proven also to be the best in the business.
While I respect the author's security credentials, this article boils down to speculation about the future and the author really doesn't know how secure the fingerprint sensor system will be. The author is simply making "educated" guesses - he should have done more research before he wrote this article.
I can answer the question for him about the fingerprint security; it will be a hell of a lot more secure than a 4 digit security code and this is a smart phone not a CIA supercomputer. Oh and one more thing, most people understand that there is no perfect security system, that is not anything special to point out.
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 couldn't the same maliciously coded game be slipped into uncover the four number digits to enter the phone? And for that matter, four digit security is not very secure. It as if the author of the article has forgotten that this is a smart phone, not a CIA computer.
That being said, from what I understand, from what I have heard, Apple's smart phone security is the best in the business. Not even the NSA has cracked their protection codes. In one article I read, the NSA had been reduced to breaking into the computers that the iPhones phones synced with to get information from the phone. I fully expect Apple's fingerprint security will be proven also to be the best in the business.
While I respect the author's security credentials, this article boils down to speculation about the future and the author really doesn't know how secure the fingerprint sensor system will be. The author is simply making "educated" guesses - he should have done more research before he wrote this article.
I can answer the question for him about the fingerprint security; it will be a hell of a lot more secure than a 4 digit security code and this is a smart phone not a CIA supercomputer. Oh and one more thing, most people understand that there is no perfect security system, that is not anything special to point out.
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