I have a feeling that there will be at least 1 news article about a stolen iphone and someone losing their thumb.
I still don't understand though: Why wouldn't Apple give us the ability to ONLY unlock via fingerprint if that's what we want? Seems like a super simple thing to include in iOS settings and would help give users who want it additional security![]()
The sensor will only detect live skin. Some people have been watching too many movies.![]()
They can't activate the fresh phone without your iTunes account.
No, not movies. Just having owned and/or tinkered with a lot of those readers.
Also, short of doing a biopsy and a biological analysis of the specimen you can't detect "live skin".
Well, I guess we'll soon find out how easy it is to fool that reader. It probably isn't quite as trivial as the first ones where all you needed was a crude printout of the fingerprint on regular office paper, but I wouldn't think that it is all that hard to fool.
I still don't understand though: Why wouldn't Apple give us the ability to ONLY unlock via fingerprint if that's what we want? Seems like a super simple thing to include in iOS settings and would help give users who want it additional security![]()
No but it could detect warmth and static.
i hope the jailbreak scene can bypass this and only ask for the fingerprint and throw away the passcode alltogether.
And what will you do if the sensor breaks and you're locked out? There will probably be a tweak for that too, but what of non-jailbreakers? That's why it's there, as a fall back.
You only need the passcode when you start the phone - seems like a problem that doesn't need solving to me.i hope the jailbreak scene can bypass this and only ask for the fingerprint and throw away the passcode alltogether.
Ah, gotcha.
For some reason I thought Touch ID would disable the ability to simply unlock via 4-digit code altogether (if you wanted) and instead always require the fingerprint for added security. Seems like Apple should have added the option to only unlock via fingerprint for those that want this more secure option.
I guess it's more just to help out the lazy ones who didn't want to deal with passcodes in the first place.
what about DFU mode.....you cant unlock your phone in DFU.There are numerous reasons why this wouldn't be the best of ideas. The most obvious one that I can think of is suffering a potential injury. No, this doesn't happen to most people, but it is inevitable that someone suffers an injury to the finger (yes I know you can teach the phone multiple fingers) that they use to unlock the phone. If my only option is a finger unlock, in this case, I am locked out of my phone, potentially for life.
I don't view this as an option for "lazy" people. Rather, it makes unlocking faster for everyone. There are those who need to keep a passcode on their phones for work, and are on their phones all day. How fun is it to type an unlock code dozens of times a day just to get to your content? I am sure this feature will get people who currently have no passcode set to set one up since it is far more convenient. But this is a quality of life upgrade, the way I see it.
iOS7 has also finally made it so that phones cannot be restore when locked. This means that the would be thief can literally do nothing with the phone. That is a feature I had been waiting for for AGES.
what about DFU mode.....you cant unlock your phone in DFU.
what about DFU mode.....you cant unlock your phone in DFU.
I have a feeling that there will be at least 1 news article about a stolen iphone and someone losing their thumb.
This is a common misconception. But the passcode is not only used to unlock the phone, but also to derive the key that is used to encrypt protected data on your phone (in the keychain), such as saved passwords etc.. Using readily available forensic software tools (that use OS exploits similar to jailbreaking), a thief can break into your device via the USB port and extract the data from your phone. If you are only using a 4-digit passcode, it can be broken by brute force in a matter of minutes.Even if you use a simple 4-digit password, you have to remember that you only get a limited number of attempts before the phone locks you out. So with 10000 options for a simple password, it's still relatively secure to brute force attempts.