Posted on 09/22/2013 6:56:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It took only days for the hackers of Germany’s Chaos Computer Club to claim victory in the challenge to break Apple’s vaunted new security feature in the iPhone 5s. The CCC “biometrics hacking team” used a photo of a fingerprint from a glass surface to fashion a fake finger that they then used to fool the newest iPhone into unlocking. “This demonstrates—again,” the group said in a statement, “that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided.”
Actually, it demonstrates no such thing.
The new iPhone debuted on Friday, September 20. The CCC team announced their successful hack roughly 48 hours later. But if you think this is a crushing defeat for Apple, think again. Apple’s technology is good enough for most common applications. But no fingerprint reader is unhackable. …
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If someone wants to go through all that trouble to hack my iPhone, I’ve got more problems than I know.
Finger prints are just not going to cut it.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
they don’t need to hack it, the gubmint’ will just ask for the backdoor access and those obama lovers at Apple will happily oblige..
Yep.
Though I suspect everything already has that backdoor.
They sure are obsessed with backdoor access.
The easiest “hack” would be to hack off the finger when you stole the phone.
Exactly what I was thinking. I think eye interfaces look to see if the eye is living so you can’t pluck someone’s eye out like in “Demolition Man”.
Um, the iPhone’s screen will be covered with the fingerprint that unlocks it - I would guess that 99% of owners would use the thumb or index finger of his dominant hand as his security print.
Thanks Olog-hai.
A guy in Japan (of course) has already shown you can use a nipple to lock and unlock an iphone.
No matter what, it is still better than no unlock code like the vast majority of people.
Really, very few need to worry about the government, most just need to worry about some random purse snatcher or an unethical person who finds a phone lost in a taxi.
Seems to me the fingerprint unlock is a bit of a gimmick.
Ok this is complete liberal media inspired and/or google BS. The so called hacking scenario calls for three of the following to be present for it to work
1. a stolen iPhone
2. a stolen fingerprint
3. An owner who is incapacited in some way, tied up or maybe dead. Which unless I’m wrong would change this scenario entirely.
Not worried a bit. The last time I bought and Apple Product, Reagan was in the White House.
Supposedly, the finger has to be on a live person. Cutting off a person’s finger wouldn’t work. Just like the touchscreen requires a finger, not a pointing device, because of electrical charge coming from our bodies.
The bottom line with finger print technology was pointed out by people like Bill Gates a long time ago. Internally a fingerprint is represented by something like a Guid or large integer value. Once they have that, since it will never change, they own you. Passwords can be changed and perhaps fingerprint GUIDs can be reestablished, but except for low-level operations it is a bad security model.
As weirded out as I am at the idea of this fingerprint scanner even existing (though I know they’ve been around for a while, even on early 2000s HP laptops), what damage could really be done by having someone’s fingerprint? I can’t think of anything, at least not anything that actually exists and isn’t still the stuff of futuristic science fiction.
The government already has my fingerprints from when I started working as a day camp counselor when I was 14. Quite a bummer; there were so many murders that I wanted to get away with.
Tell me more about fingerprint technology. Use wiki if needed.
” Quite a bummer; there were so many murders that I wanted to get away with”
Wear gloves
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