"never tested on a real phone. .. " The problem with that is that even using a photo of the real user's finger print WILL NOT WORK with the Apple fingerprint sensor. . . because Apple is not using the fingerprint itself but rather the ridges and valleys of the fat pad underneath the fingerprint! Photos or representations of fingerprints do not work!
To: dayglored; ThunderSleeps; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; ...
Researchers claim that merely machine certain common characteristics found on all fingerprints can unlock fingerprint sensors on smartphones. . . but they didn't bother to test their common feature prints on any real smartphones. Just on their own ideas of how such sensors work. Apple's doesn't even use the fingerprint itself but rather senses the ridges and valleys of the fat pad underneath the skin of the fingerprint. . . and that is why a photo or representation of the actual user's fingerprint does not work, much less a generic 65 point common characteristic print is unlikely to work either. — PING! Pinging dayglored and ThunderSleeps for their interests. . .
Researchers Claim They Have Found A Way
To Unlock Smartphone Fingerprint Sensors,
But Did Not Bother To Test It On Any Smartphones!
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2 posted on
04/10/2017 10:05:44 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
A few days ago, a co-worker lost his brand new MOTO, I found it and could do nothing to get past his fingerprint setup. Even when ringing.
3 posted on
04/10/2017 10:16:12 PM PDT by
umgud
To: Swordmaker
Worst password ever. They can force that on you in law.
4 posted on
04/10/2017 10:26:08 PM PDT by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Swordmaker; All
Just more NYT Fake news / Complete BS posted as "news": Note the "convenient" use of suggest that , In computer simulations,, could match, The researchers did not test their approach with real phones, and other security experts said the match rate would be significantly lower in real-life and more and more "Considerations" that lead an intelligent person to cry BS about the entire article. Sorry - NO GO on this one !
5 posted on
04/10/2017 10:28:42 PM PDT by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Swordmaker
They should have 1,000 people other than the owner put their fingers on a phone. The number of times the phone unlocks for the wrong person would be a meaningful number.
7 posted on
04/10/2017 10:49:55 PM PDT by
Arthur McGowan
(https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
To: Swordmaker
Thank Hussein that these guys are funded....
8 posted on
04/10/2017 10:50:38 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: Swordmaker
The
fingerprint sensor isn't meant for your security.
It's a data-mining operation for the NSA.
14 posted on
04/11/2017 6:18:17 AM PDT by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: Swordmaker
My finger doesn’t work 80% of the time on an iphone six; so I imagine an image will work b80% of the time.
15 posted on
04/11/2017 6:20:58 AM PDT by
mad_as_he$$
("Where there is smoke, there is Susan Rice." Lee Carter, FBN, 4/6/2017)
To: Swordmaker
The researchers did not test their approach with real phones, So ... Fake, but Accurate. Pinch Sulzberger's NYT, ladies & germs.
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