Posted on 12/02/2014 2:44:39 PM PST by aquila48
While we’ve been reading about elaborate hacks of Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint identification system for more than a year now, one clever 7-year-old boy has figured out the simplest way to bypass the system without knowing one line of code. CNN Monday reports that Harrison Green, the 7-year-old son of Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew Green, smartly snuck into his father’s room while he was asleep and...
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Totally different technology. The TouchID uses an optical approach that does not require capacititance while the multitouch screen requires the contact to have some conductivity which at colder temperatures can be compromised. Do a quick rub of your finger against any cloth to induce friction. Should warm it enough to establish the conductivity.
Well, I use my pinky for my 3 carat Star Ruby ring, but my ring finger of the opposite hand is for my 15 1/2 carat black diamond ring. Grin.
Then they'd have an electrified, twitching dead finger that still wouldn't work. Don't you think that with Apple's $2.8 Billion R&D budget they haven't gone through all of this? The answer is they have.
No, I'm not dreaming. I've read several articles on this Very ruling by Constitutional Attorneys who've pointed out that the use of fingerprints have been already constrained by appellate courts to ID purposes only, and not to be used for other purposes. So his extension is on very shaky ground. He ignored case and precedent law. Typical liberal. DNA has also been limited to similar ID purposes. Biometrics are an area of legal flux. There are questions of who owns your DNA map, you or the lab who mapped it. How about specific sections of the human genome? Someone patented the human genome. Is it patentable? All grey areas in law.
Bah, there is always a way to hack something, someone just needs to think it up. Say we take the finger, go to North Korea, clone it, and then use the kid’s finger?
You are aware that even identical twin's fingerprints who share the same DNA are not identical, to say nothing of the time factor in your cloning plan?
We know they would still be mine but for that ace you caught at the river...damn your luck anyway!
Just goes to prove there is always someone smarter than you. Take that Obama.
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