If someone wants to go through all that trouble to hack my iPhone, I’ve got more problems than I know.
The easiest “hack” would be to hack off the finger when you stole the phone.
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.
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.
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.