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First Magazine Advertisement for iPhone 5s Appears, Highlights Touch ID Sensor

So this is front page new then? I wish they had an emoticon where it's a bubble head smacking himself with a mallet.....

How about Mac Rumors go and find out some leaked Mac Pro pricing or something more interesting then a magazine advert?
 
carlgo said:
Now Apple, expand this sensor to eliminate all passwords for everything and that likely means opening this up to developers. It is not enough to just use it for iTunes and apps.

Those who like passwords can still use them.
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It certainly is worth it just for unlock and for app store / itunes. It would be fantastic if they expand it to in-app purchases and the few times apple prompts for your password (like find your phone...) but otherwise hell yes its enough. Im not going back to entering my pin and pasting my complex password.
 
ewww...
As much as i love touchID on my 5s, this ad is incorrect.
A fingerprint is absolutely NOT a password. It is an identity.
A password is something that can be changed if compromised. A fingerprint can't be changed.

I think its a mistake to make people confuse biometrics with passwords.
 
keysofanxiety said:
Cloning a fingerprint to work on a fingerprint scanner isn't 'hacking'. Learning somebody's password and using that to login to their computer isn't 'hacking'.

Exploiting a bug in Apple's system to have the TouchID unlock when you whistle a certain tune to it: that's closer.
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It depends on your definition of hacked. If it's simply "unauthorized access" then anyone but the actual owner of the fingerprint being able to gain access would be hacking. Yes, the sensor worked and was not "bypassed" but claiming it was not hacked may just be semantics.

To further my point, from wikipedia:

In the computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network.
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Therefore if the intent of the fingerprint sensor is to only allow access to the owner of the fingerprint, then being able to lift a fingerprint and gain access to the device would be exploiting a weakness in the system.
 
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giantfan1224 said:
It depends on your definition of hacked. If it's simply "unauthorized access" then anyone but the actual owner of the fingerprint being able to gain access would be hacking. Yes, the sensor worked correctly and was not "bypassed" but claiming it was not hacked may just be semantics.
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No, claiming it was 'hacked' implies Apple made a mistake and left a bug to be exploited. To claim that making an identical fingerprint to work on a fingerprint scanner is 'hacking' simply because the original user didn't authorise it ... now that's semantics.
 
keysofanxiety said:
No, claiming it was 'hacked' implies Apple made a mistake and left a bug to be exploited. To claim that making an identical fingerprint to work on a fingerprint scanner is 'hacking' simply because the original user didn't authorise it ... now that's semantics.
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I further clarified my point in my original post.
 
"Only on iPhone 5s...

Does this indicate that Touch ID won't be on next week's iPads? It would seem strange to advertise it as an exclusive feature if it were about to become available on other devices (iPad, iPad Mini, iPod Touch).
 
giantfan1224 said:
Therefore if the intent of the fingerprint sensor is to only allow access to the owner of the fingerprint, then being able to lift a fingerprint and gain access to the device would be exploiting a weakness in the system.
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So what you're saying is if I watched somebody put their password into their computer, and did the same to login to their system, that's 'hacking'. If my friend didn't let me use their Internet connection, and I hooked up using Ethernet, that's 'hacking'. If I mugged an old lady for her car keys and drove off in her 2CV, that's 'hacking' (after all, I am getting access without their authorisation).

The only reason I believe we're having this argument about this is because touch sensors haven't really been used in the general public, with such integration. Look at it from the bigger picture and you'll see that cloning a fingerprint is not hacking. There's really no difference between that and learning somebody's password -- both are a code that will need to be entered identically.
 
aerok said:
Sold out everywhere in Canada, haven't seen a single person with it. I guess only basement nerds got it.
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Exactly as long as YOU haven't seen anyone with one in the whole country of China then that means only hermits have them. 🙄 I've never seen a single person in the flesh on MR. Does that mean they don't exist?
 
HenryDJP said:
Exactly as long as YOU haven't seen anyone with one in the whole country of China then that means only hermits have them. 🙄 I've never seen a single person in the flesh on MR. Does that mean they don't exist?
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Hate to be the one who tells you this, but we really don't exist. You've foiled us.

Wake up, Henry.

Wake up.
 
The fingerprint sensor is a total joke, all hype. It takes two to three scans to unlock my phone, and I find that I can unlock my device faster with the old fashioned password.
Not worth an upgrade for sure!
 
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