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Clever 7-year-old discovers how to bypass Apple’s Touch ID...
Yahoo Tech ^
| December 2, 2014
| Brad Reed
Posted on 12/02/2014 2:44:39 PM PST by aquila48
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To: PeteB570
The main screen doesnt seem to work with my left thumb when my hands are real cold either. 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.
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12/03/2014 7:29:35 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
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To: Fightin Whitey
What is the pinky good for besides my two carat diamond ring? 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.
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posted on
12/03/2014 7:38:31 PM PST
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Swordmaker
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To: Boogieman
What if you hook up some electrodes and make it twitch like the frog legs in science class? 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.
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12/03/2014 7:42:03 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
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To: Talisker
What rot. If you get arrested your fingerprints are automatically taken without conviction. Your passwords are not. There's nothing shaky about it. If you think the government is going to adjudicate itself out out access to the biometrics contained in the body they believe they are empowered to seize and jail on suspicion of a crime, you're dreaming. 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.
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12/03/2014 7:52:49 PM PST
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Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
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?
To: Boogieman
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 kids 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?
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posted on
12/03/2014 10:01:50 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
my 3 carat Star Ruby ring...my 15 1/2 carat black diamond ring... We know they would still be mine but for that ace you caught at the river...damn your luck anyway!
To: Swordmaker
Just goes to prove there is always someone smarter than you. Take that Obama.
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12/04/2014 4:20:10 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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