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To: cableguymn
Sounds like a hacker’s paradise to me

Not likely… The Apple Wallet is protected by either TouchID fingerprint security or by FaceID facial recognition… neither of which has been truly successfully been hacked without LOTS of sophisticated and expensive technology.

The Apple TouchID does not read fingerprints so cannot be spoofed by lifted or copied images of user’s fingerprints, but reads instead the patterns of the ridges and valleys of a living user’s subcutaneous fat pads below the user’s skin where a fingerprint actually exists. Apple’s FaceID does not scan and compare a stored photo image of the user’s face, but instead makes an infrared 3D topographical terrain map of 30,000 to 90,000 (older to newer tech) different locations (via LIDAR) on the user’s face that are then processed utilizing a specialized neural engine processor running at 5 to 11 trillion operations per second to assure the user is indeed the correct authorized user.

You’d have to unlock the iOS device first to get at the ID first, and if you can do that, you could also unlock the Apple Wallet. If you could do that, you’d already have direct and full access to the credit and debit cards already in the Apple Wallet. The driver’s license would be superfluous to having access to those.

19 posted on 09/01/2021 4:20:41 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

uhh huh..

and crapple won’t scan your photos or anything either


26 posted on 09/01/2021 5:05:32 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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