I find the finger printer reader problematic.
Knowing the NSA is able, and willing, to read your cellphone information, it seems that your fingerprint information could be accessible to them.
“...Would a criminal be willing to remove my finger in order to access my contact list? ...”
Not from where my finger usually is.
The fingerprint data is never available to other software, and it is not backed up to Apple's servers, leaving it stored entirely on the device in a secure fashion.
“The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.” ~Cmdr. M. Scott, UFP c. 2385
Much ado about nothing.
If the internal drive is not encrypted, the fingerprint reader is just a toy... And I personally have gotten around two types of so-called drive-encryption (really drive-locking) that turned out to be nothing more than a front door.
In point of fact, don’t put anything incriminating on any electronic device, period.
It’s a trap...ultimately. That being said...
This type of technology is pretty cool. Heck, almost any kind of technology is cool, and usually very beneficial. It’s a shame bad guys and the gubment (I repeat myself) choose to misuse it too the detriment of American citizens.
Also: What if you have a cut, burn, or other injury to your finger? Are you locked out of your phone until it heals?
If they ever require fingerprints for voting, we’re screwed.
Unfortunately for the robber, the iPhone 5s will not be the only thing in my pocket.
No. It does not.
The Fifth Amendment does not provide any right.
Our rights do not come from a piece of paper.
Our rights are birthrights, divinely bestowed.
The Fifth Amendment merely prohibits the government from requiring a citizen to be a witness against himself.
The belief that stored information is unhackable by various government agencies, corporations, or the NSA, in this day and age, is inexcusably naive.
And anyone making such claims as industry experts with decades in the field should be doubly ashamed.
What Apple is doing is breaking operational ground in functional biometrics as a social meme. That’s it. This is just one giant leap towards the conceptual “666 forehead scanner” that everyone laughs about, but which TPTB are deadly serious about implementing.
Not to mention training an entier generation of idiots that biometric information formerly protect by warrant requirements are now necessarily waived by electronic contract agreements so as to get to the latest version of Angry Birds.
Apple Questioned Over iPhone Fingerprint Security By U.S. Senator Franken
not to worry- Weird Al is on the case.
He’s an expert .