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Alleged iPhone 5S User Guide Photo Highlights Fingerprint Sensor As 'Touch ID'
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I think this is very dangerous thing.
Highly dangerous. Imagine you murder a person and drop your phone at the crime scene. Now all the police has to do is send your phone to Apple who will access the secretly stored fingerprint data and give your fingerprints to the police, who can put them through their fingerprint database and find you.
Whereas without the fingerprint sensor, they would have just picked up your fingerprints from just about everywhere on the phone.
The bolded text in your statement is pure nonsense.
The only way the NSA can get data of your iPhone is by hacking into the computer that you sync the iPhone to for backup purposes. If they hack into your computer, they can then access data stored in the backups.
There are three ways to protect against that:
1. Backup your iPhone in iCloud.
2. Backup your iPhone on a Macintosh. On the Macintosh, turn full disk encryption on. In iTunes, turn "Encrypt backups" on. Turn full disk encryption on for your Time Machine backups. And don't do stupid things to allow any trojans onto your Mac.
3. If you use a Windows PC, do what you can to keep it safe.
The Spiegel article that you quoted is quite clear that the NSA has _no way_ to direct access to an iPhone. No back door.
PS. I read the article you linked to. It seems he just made up that headline about "full backdoor access" because it sounded good, would get readers excited, and get readers. In other words, the headline should be Tyler Durden is a clueless **** and www.zerohedge.com posts nonsense drivel without knowing what they are talking about.
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I'm looking forward to the publics reaction to a fingerprint reader. Meh who cares, may be a common response. Most don't even know how to backup their laptop nor do they care. It's those same people that don't bother to use a basic 4 digit pass code on their iPhone. They live in denial without a second thought.
It's no different than the people here on the forum that cannot say anything about an iPhone without bashing Android. No matter how fast & accurate it may be, it's not something I imagine the average very busy soccer mom will give a bleep about. Hence the pastel colors that give iOS7 a more feminine look, something she will like. All this proving once again, just how good Apple is at separating the customer from their money
It's no different than the people here on the forum that cannot say anything about an iPhone without bashing Android. No matter how fast & accurate it may be, it's not something I imagine the average very busy soccer mom will give a bleep about. Hence the pastel colors that give iOS7 a more feminine look, something she will like. All this proving once again, just how good Apple is at separating the customer from their money
So, the iconic Home button (or the square icon we all know) disappears. What I think it means, is that it will not be a pressable button anymore, but a touch button. That's the reason for Apple to remove the square box.
It is a very welcome addition considering the fact that those normal buttons tend to break down from time to time and collect dust.
What do you think?
It is a very welcome addition considering the fact that those normal buttons tend to break down from time to time and collect dust.
What do you think?
id take a water resistant iphone and a notification led like on the xperia over an fingerprint scanner tbh maybe on the iPhone 6
how do you know the TouchID sensor ring isn't a notification light as well?!?!
Did I just blow your mind?
Because it's well known in the tech world buttons are still needed. Was it LG I read decided to bring buttons back?
Probably an idea Apple looked at and scrapped. Hope they don't go for a 6" Iphone.
I'm pretty sure all the major intelligence agencies around the world have the means to access pretty much any device, and gain access to as much information they need at any time they want. There are few people in the world who will be able to do it but I bet all the major intelligence agencies have someone who can.
I'm not naive enough to think they can't, and I pity those who are. It was 20 years ago someone came out and said that 30 years before that intelligence agencies had software that could pick out key words in random phone calls in multiple languages on every call in the world, 50 years and you don't think they have better now?
The thing is though these guys can't suddenly use the evidence against you for anything other than terrorist/espionage charges, even if you were in court for mass murder they couldn't use this illegal evidence against you.
Are u aware that every FP scanner in every mobile device prior to today has sucked. So if the iPhones sensor doesn't suck, it'll be the first one. And I'm sure Samsung and everyone one else will have a similar sensor within the next 6 months.
wut?
why computer? example fingerprint what i imagine:
to lock your phone by fingerprint the operation system will save your fingerprint on the phone. everytime you want to unlock the phone, it will compare the scanned fingerprint with the saved one. so to get the data of your fingerprint is just a need to access to the phone. the access to the phone gives us the sim-card of the provider, doesnt matter if you use it or not, what matters is, thats its turned on and has signal. Data-signals are running through the servers of the provider. the NSA just needs to harass the providers for an access to their servers ("of course for national security"
) so with access to the servers and the backdoor to your phone-files they have an fingerprint and account data (mostly with names) ... works with other files too
Wow, this is big news!
There is nothing I hate worse than having to key in my lousy 4 digit passcode on my lock screen every 5 mins.
There is nothing I hate worse than having to key in my lousy 4 digit passcode on my lock screen every 5 mins.
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Old but it did work really well. 128mb of ram!!!! EPIC days.
No, because the metal ring around the buttons behaves as a conductor. Therefore, the phone knows when to activate the fingerprint sensor based on how the software is used.
A physical button will take you to the Home screen no matter where you are in the OS, and that's very important. It also reduces the chances of accidental 'home-screening'.
Take your blinders off,Apple has been copying for years(stealing)and people have been buying into their alleged innovations. Remember the truth about slide to unlock?
You are just speculating right now. We all will know it for sure after the Apple presentation. And if the new Touch ID does not function as a normal button, you will be surprised...