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Apple's iPhone 5s fingerprint reader is hacking challenge

article published on 19 September, 2013

Apple's TouchID fingerprint reader and authentication system will be a fun challenge for hackers after the launching of a crowd-funding effort to provide motivation. IsTouchIDHackedYet.com has been launched by security researcher Nick Depetrillo and Robert David Graham, listing pledges from Twitter users to provide money (including BitCoin) and other prizes - like a bottle of wine and ... [ read the full article ]

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thebox
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_ 		19. September 2013 @ 21:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just proved Apple wrong. I lopped off my finger and was able to gain access to my iPhone lol
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ddp
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_ 		19. September 2013 @ 21:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
& you made a bloody mess of it too.
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djgizmo
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_ 		20. September 2013 @ 10:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sigh. The finger print scanner is subdermal. It doesn't 'just' look at the surface oil finger print. It looks at several subdermal markers under neath the skin using an infrared scanner.

I'd be 'very' surprised if anyone could hack the TouchID within the next 12 months.
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plazma247
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_ 		20. September 2013 @ 11:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thats obviously a marketing scam thats designed not to pay, they state you must demonstrate it working by lifting a fingerprint from another surface to be able to demonstrate the hack. Its a sub dermal scanner and even if you do have a working bypass you could never meet their cryteria which would be fitting a standard surface only scanner. No one will ever get a payout from this. Although i assume using an exisiting sub dermal scanner and a 3d printer setup with the right doped gels it would be potentially possible to do.

Updated, it would appear it has been hacked: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...-scanner-hacked

and whats more if its true its not sub dermal at all..!
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