Flaws in Finger Print scanner.

[iDannyxD]

Just a theory but what if your asleep and whom ever comes into your room and picks up your iPhone 5S and just touch's the scanner of your finger while you sleep, and bang there in your phone!

It's silly but true!

 

[saving107]

Who exactly is going to come into my bedroom while I sleep to get into my phone?

Why don't we cross this bridge (and issue) once we have all the info on how this feature (if true) will function, no need to create and solve an issue that doesn't exist yet.

 

[borgqueenx]

Just a theory but what if your asleep and whom ever comes into your room and picks up your iPhone 5S and just touch's the scanner of your finger while you sleep, and bang there in your phone!

It's silly but true!

Put a infrared/ laser alarm installation on your bedroom.

 

[0098386]

Just a theory but what if your asleep and whom ever comes into your room and picks up your iPhone 5S and just touch's the scanner of your finger while you sleep, and bang there in your phone!

It's silly but true!

Good point! Fingerprint and voice recognition maybe?

 

[borgqueenx]

Good point! Fingerprint and voice recognition maybe?

*puts finger of sleeping person on iphone.."correct, please say something". Punches sleeping person in the face.."AAAAGH" *thank you*.
Unlocked

 

[ItsWelshy]

Let me word the OP question how he wanted to write it...


"I'm worried that my wife will now be able to get my phone whilst I'm asleep, and put my finger on the phone to unlock it.. Obviously this is unacceptable, as she'd find out that I'm shagging my secretary.

Anyone else worried about this?"



We've all thought about that bro.

 

[iBreatheApple]

This is ridiculous and hilarious at the same time. Who thinks about this stuff? Lol!

 

[LostSoul80]

Now, that is an issue.
You can hire a bodyguard though. That would solve the problem.

 

[saving107]

 

[Steve121178]

Just a theory but what if your asleep and whom ever comes into your room and picks up your iPhone 5S and just touch's the scanner of your finger while you sleep, and bang there in your phone!

It's silly but true!

Just enable the PIN code to add a second layer of security.

 

[jordanogrady]

I wonder if the crimes of phones and cut off thumbs will go up?

 

[Wormald]

Perhaps when the phone unlocks from the scanner it'll vibrate or make a beep?

Aside from disabling the scanner, that would be a good option to have.

But, yes, if there's someone in your room whilst you're asleep who you don't trust, then them vicariously fingering your phone is the least of your worries

Edit: I think I've figured out how this will be stopped from happening - I think you'll have to press the home button, and the scan will take place as you press it in. The force required to push someone elses finger (a very sensitive part of the body) into the home button would rouse them from sleep for sure.

 

[Enco]

We literally had this exact thread a couple days ago.

 

[Arran]

Wear boxing gloves to bed. That'll stop 'em two ways!

 

[bozzykid]

Just enable the PIN code to add a second layer of security.

Most likely a PIN code will be required anyway. But it won't be used unless it can't authenticate your finger. So that would be useless in this case.

 

[roadbloc]

I'm certain there will be a way to disable it. I've never liked the idea of using my fingerprint anyway.

 

[617aircav]

There will certainly be a way to disable. It will be like siri, exciting at first then not very practical. Fingerprint scanners on larger devices, and even in high security environments, don't have a 100 percent scan success rate. Imagine having to re scan your finger to unlock your phone. What about dirt and smudge.

 

[OneMike]

Just a theory but what if your asleep and whom ever comes into your room and picks up your iPhone 5S and just touch's the scanner of your finger while you sleep, and bang there in your phone!

It's silly but true!

Don't live around people you don't trust, and if you feel you need to hide it you shouldn't be doing it.

That or sleep with iMits on to protect your fingerprints.

 

[absurdamerica]

There will certainly be a way to disable. It will be like siri, exciting at first then not very practical. Fingerprint scanners on larger devices, and even in high security environments, don't have a 100 percent scan success rate. Imagine having to re scan your finger to unlock your phone. What about dirt and smudge.

You're assuming it uses the exact same technology for identification as the high security scanners, which it may not. Guess what? Voice recognition sucked 5 years ago too, not so much anymore.

 

[Sonicjay]

*puts finger of sleeping person on iphone.."correct, please say something". Punches sleeping person in the face.."AAAAGH" *thank you*.
Unlocked

I LOL'd

 

[Binarymix]

If someone really wants into your phone, they do not need your passcode, nor your finger to do it.

 

[Andy-V]

It'll be low-level security. It'll stop people just picking your phone up and reading through your data. But if someone REALLY wants access to your phone and they're willing to go to fairly extreme measures, they'll get in somehow.

 

[madsci954]

Just a theory but what if your asleep and whom ever comes into your room and picks up your iPhone and knows your pin code or you don't use one, and bang they're in your phone!

It's silly but true!

 

[MikhailT]

I wonder if the crimes of phones and cut off thumbs will go up?

Cut-off thumbs may not work if Apple managed to fit in all of the technologies that AuthenTech developed.

Based on what AuthenTech was working on before Apple bought them, they require your fingers to be alive.

I'm not sure if it is possible to keep pushing fake blood into a thumb to fool this technology.

 

[eawmp1]

OMG.

On the flip side, what would you do if in a freak industrial accident you had all your fingers cut off and you could no longer access your phone?






It could happen...