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  • Apple’s advanced fingerprint technology is hacked; should you worry?

    09/22/2013 6:56:30 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 20 replies
    ZDNet ^ | September 23, 2013 00:10 GMT (17:10 PDT) | Ed Bott
    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...