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Chaos Computer Club Bypasses Apple's Touch ID System (With Copy of Original Fingerprint)
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So a thief walks into a Starbucks where an iPhone 5S and a Samsung Galaxy S4 are sitting next to each other. He notices the owner of the iPhone 5S is using the finger print scanner. Guess which phone he steals?
Frankly, most thieves who are going to target Smart phones are looking for a quick few hundred bucks. They aren't looking for a process that will take them hours to do. Why waste several hours of their time (obtaining a good finger print, scanning it, printing it, etc., etc.) when they could just steal another one?
And quite frankly, I have nothing on my phone worth that kind of effort. Even if we end up with e-wallets, we will treat our phones like our credit cards and call in a lost card (in this case a phone) as soon as we realize it which would take a lot less time than it does to do this "hack"....
Or peek over their shoulder as they type in their passcode. Or look at surveillance cam footage of someone doing the same. Or just grab the phone and do a brute force attack on the 4-digit passcode. Etc. etc.
The fingerprint scan still provides better security. First, you'd have to get someone to consent to a 2400 dpi scan of their finger, or somehow do it covertly. Then you'd have to go through the elaborate process of making a print the scanner would recognize. Then you have to actually get ahold of their phone so you can physically use the print. In any case, it would be easier to just force a person to enter their passcode (or scan their finger) at gunpoint. No password can defeat that.
Judging from previous reports on fingerprint replicas for bypassing systems like this one, probably less than an hour.
The iphone 5s. Nicer phone
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The sensor should included something that detects a human pulse.
Boy Apple is on a roll.
1) No iPhones 5S until sometime in October
2) Finger ID easily thwarted
3) Apple TV Bricking
Bad
Not going to be good for Apple stock tomorrow.
lolwut
My thoughts exactly. I would have been 'convinced' if a DIFFERENT person then lifted that piece of paper and used that to circumvent the lock.
Furthermore, how do we know the phone was locked? It could simply have been that he pressed the button to unlock it.
If however this is genuine, that means more work for Apple, I guess.
It's funny how Android fanboys ignore the fact that a fingerprint sensor is better security than face unlock that can be fooled by low quality printed pictures...
Umm... everyone alive has a pulse. Pretty sure a paper thin layer of latex wouldn't prevent the scanner from registering a pulse.
I am so impressed by this guy's ability to unlock a door with a copy of his key.
But on a serious note, this is kind of a concern for people that value their security more. It's comforting to know that a severed finger won't unlock the 5s, however it's less comforting to know that it won't even require that. If Apple rectifies this, bravo; I personally won't be losing any sleep over this.
But on a serious note, this is kind of a concern for people that value their security more. It's comforting to know that a severed finger won't unlock the 5s, however it's less comforting to know that it won't even require that. If Apple rectifies this, bravo; I personally won't be losing any sleep over this.
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How about lifting the finger print off the home button and put it in the scanner...
This reminds me of using a can of compressed air to cool the RAM chips to read the contents of the RAM... even after the computer has been rebooted.
Yeah... it can happen... but it's highly unlikely.
Yeah... it can happen... but it's highly unlikely.
That's not a 5s. ******** video.
Um, excellent reporting MacRumors. Notice how the screen size, and silver edge on a black phone are indicative of an iPhone 4 or 4s? Well, then it doesn't have a TouchID sensor.
If it does, it was hacked in, probably improperly. But it doesn't appear that they even tried to fake that, as the Home button doesn't have the 5s' characteristic metallic edge.
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Um, excellent reporting MacRumors. Notice how the screen size, and silver edge on a black phone are indicative of an iPhone 4 or 4s? Well, then it doesn't have a TouchID sensor.
If it does, it was hacked in, probably improperly. But it doesn't appear that they even tried to fake that, as the Home button doesn't have the 5s' characteristic metallic edge.
******** video. ******** 'reporting' of ********.
The Team used a 2400 DPI scan its just to save time R&D, coz Its easy to get a 2400 DPI quality fingerprint from a 300dpi photo (as on most ID) just processing it as vector image.
But most important thing is that's is very easy to get an fingerprint image just from a glass, and most objects just as police does.
That's all, if this **** is integrated to the Next iPad I'll disable it (no way I'll purchase an iPhone 5s , has no enough features to consider it an attractive upgrage.
But most important thing is that's is very easy to get an fingerprint image just from a glass, and most objects just as police does.
That's all, if this **** is integrated to the Next iPad I'll disable it (no way I'll purchase an iPhone 5s , has no enough features to consider it an attractive upgrage.
I thought the sensor was supposed to read the skin layer behind the fingerprint
It does, which is why I believe that the phone just read his own fingerprint through the media he was using as the "fingerprint".
So the thief broke into his own phone congratulations!!
He should of used another persons finger with the fake print!
He should of used another persons finger with the fake print!