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iOS 7 Beta 4 Code Points to Home Button Fingerprint Sensor for iPhone 5S
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Um, maybe I'm misunderstanding that text string, but it seemed to me like that was an introduction/tutorial on how to use it. The phone would go through a setup process showing pictures of how to use it. Not that it would require a picture of a person touching the home button to operate, that would literally be impossible from the front camera lol. Just think about it....how would the camera attached to the phone get a wider shot of a person holding the device with their finger on the button....lol
I was going to ask how this works with full cover cases. Is there anyway they can be made to work with biometrics?
This is exactly what uneducated people don´t understand, "it´s been done before" is worthless. It´s how you actually make it *work* so people use it, and don´t call it crap. That is true innovation.
And just so you know, this is nothing like a "fingerprint" scanner like we have seen before. This solution even care about your "fingerprint" it cares about a whole series of biometric values stemming from your finger. It can´t be easily fooled. It´s small. It´s fast. It´s useful.
And if someone is able to lift them, how will they know what account they're associated with?
Yes. If Wikipedia says it then it must be true. Even if its not a word I'm sure you can see what he meant was that the fingerprint sensor probably would not rely on optics solely or at all.
Yeah I thought the incredibly insecure nature of fingerprint recognition was outlined in action movies? I mean a thief simply needs to cut off your finger and voila, instant access to your phone.
Perhaps different fingers will allow different functions to occur such as call up a specific app or folder or authorize different passwords?
Really?
I could have sworn that the ribbon cable for the home button was already leaked and showed a lot more pins than previous ones.
Oh yes, give the NSA your finger prints... It's not like they STORE IT in a huge facility filled with computers with the equivalent storage as 32 gb iPhones stacked to the moon and a bit more.
It will be very useful and popular feature. No more password entering! Wait for competitors to say they already working on copying it
I'm not sure how easy it is to get a laser print/mold of someone's finger....
Obviously, there isn't an uncrackable way to get into someone's iPhone as of yet and a fingerprint scanner is going to change that. However, aside from security there are numerous other applications of a scanner that could be neat, like individual quick-settings for each of your fingerprints, or as you mentioned - multi user devices.
In any case, while a fingerprint scanner may not offer MORE security than my current 4 digit passcode (and I'm not convinced it doesn't), I'll still have the same level of security at least without having to enter a code every time I unlock the phone.
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That's what I was also wondering!
P.S. - Not to be a Grammar Nazi, but without proper punctuation in your signature, it reads as if Schiller is saying, his ass can't be innovated anymore
Thanks for the tip
Falling into your definition of what you think the capabilities of a fingerprint scanner are, yes this would be more secure. Having to go through an extra authentication step to unlock my phone is counterintuitive... In reality, I doubt they add yet another step that you have to go through to unlock your device. If they implement it, it will be secure and most likely function better than any other one we've seen up until this point. Remember when touch screens sucked?
Everyone seems to have missed the non-highlighted part: "Photo of a person holding an iPhone in their right hand..."
To me, that suggests that it will use facial recognition in conjunction with the fingerprint sensor.
All of you talking about how "easy" it is to defeat the fingerprint sensor are missing the point. Lifting a fingerprint and then duplicating it to break into the phone is not a realistic risk IRL. This is real-life, not some James Bond movie. At the very least, it's far more secure than it is right now with a 4 digit PIN.
To me, that suggests that it will use facial recognition in conjunction with the fingerprint sensor.
All of you talking about how "easy" it is to defeat the fingerprint sensor are missing the point. Lifting a fingerprint and then duplicating it to break into the phone is not a realistic risk IRL. This is real-life, not some James Bond movie. At the very least, it's far more secure than it is right now with a 4 digit PIN.
I hope u both realize that this new FP sensor is going to be nothing like FP sensors we've seen In the past.
There's no way to install a fingerprint scanner using software. It's not like Siri where Apple makes up a BS story as to why the old iPhones can't use it.
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