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Apple's Touch ID broken by hacker group?

article published on 22 September, 2013

The Chaos Computer Club has claimed that its "biometrics hacking team" has broken Apple's Touch ID, just days after the release of the iPhone 5s. Apple has touted the security of its fingerprint scanner system that can be used to unlock an iPhone 5s and for iTunes purchases. It said that the system cannot be beaten as easily as some other fingerprint scanners, which have found to be particularly weak. ... [ read the full article ]

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Morreale
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_ 		22. September 2013 @ 21:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Meh, I'm not surprised. I think probably 99% of 5S owners are safe from this ever happening to them though.

I doubt many will really use this feature anyways once winter comes along. Not worth sacrificing gloves over lol
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dEwMe
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_ 		23. September 2013 @ 13:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Err I gotta say if anyone wants my info that bad they can have it or could have gotten it by other means. I am not an Apple fan nor would I ever own an iPhone. I am just saying going to all that work to get the average person's info? Prob not worth it...A fake finger? REALLY? LOL... So maybe not ironclad protection but good enough for your average user and certainly better than that password they are using variations of on 20 or 30 sites across the internet.

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Just my $0.02,

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plazma247
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_ 		27. September 2013 @ 19:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
But wasnt it suppose to be an uber secure sub dermal biometric device.. the hack suggests it not at all.
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