i havent seen a fingerprint sensor. have you? please share
You're right! All of a sudden all the excitement came back!
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Glassed Silver:mac
i havent seen a fingerprint sensor. have you? please share
Of course not. (Smart) thiefs wipe the thing completely and use it themselves or sell it on. Only if they are interested in your data (which they never are unless you are Scarlett Johansson or Lindsey Lohan) will they need your fingerprint. And even then it's unlikely that the complete print will be somewhere on your phone in a usable way.
That's not how it works. It scans deeper into your finger than a print can do.
Yeah, you're wrong. They did think it through (like they always do). The fingerprint sensor reads your fingerprint from BELOW the skin and detects a biologically active finger. In other words, it has to be a live finger and does not respond to an overlay placed on the finger to fake someone else's print. I think you can relax and not worry too much.
I don't want to get into an android vs iOS argument, but my Samsung does exactly this (one of the best things about it). Are you sure there isn't an app that lets you do this?
I was walking down the street in Baltimore this summer, and right there, next to a canal on a seating area, was an iPad. I thought I had to be on "What would you do?" on TV or something. There were all sorts of people walking, but nobody within 50 feet of the thing. So we reluctantly picked it up and it didn't have a passcode!
This enabled us to go to the email, see who the emails were addressed to, then look in the contacts for someone by that name. We called someone with the same last name. It turned out to be a daughter in law. She called her mother in law's cell. The owner of the iPad and simply left it there accidentally and walked off to lunch. We met her there and got it back to her.
If she had a pass code set, I'm not sure how we would've found her.
am I crazy? I find that close to 100% of people I know use a passcode...
I was walking down the street in Baltimore this summer, and right there, next to a canal on a seating area, was an iPad. I thought I had to be on "What would you do?" on TV or something. There were all sorts of people walking, but nobody within 50 feet of the thing. So we reluctantly picked it up and it didn't have a passcode!
This enabled us to go to the email, see who the emails were addressed to, then look in the contacts for someone by that name. We called someone with the same last name. It turned out to be a daughter in law. She called her mother in law's cell. The owner of the iPad and simply left it there accidentally and walked off to lunch. We met her there and got it back to her.
If she had a pass code set, I'm not sure how we would've found her.
One little nit, and I only bring it up because I've seen it a few times in Macrumors articles recently: Can you please stop using the grammatically incorrect and redundant statement: "past history"?
All history is past history. It's either "past experience" or just "history."
Saying "past history" is like saying "hot water heater."
Past history as opposed to recent history....maybe?
How would these sites survive if we didn't have leaks? And if people hate leaks why would they visit a site like this in the first place?
Sure. Except you can call, say, your kid if they only have an iPod Touch.
So many leaks...September 10th will be more of a confirmation than an actual announcement.
Actually, with the new iOS7 and if the 5S does have the fingerprint sensor, the thief would need to bypass the sensor (or passcode) in order to wipe the thing. That was one of Apple's new features of iOS7. It can't be reset or wiped without providing authentication by the user first. So, yes, most thieves won't care about personal info, but they will need to bypass that in order to wipe it and resell it.
Do you get the four finger pinch glitch where you just get your wallpaper and are forced to reboot? Happens like twice a day for me. And rebooting takes close to 4 minutes :/
Yes, also I get this weird bug where half of the screen doesn't display.
Too bad you don't see the potential.You're right! All of a sudden all the excitement came back!
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Glassed Silver:mac
The home screen? I get one where half my icons will be overlapping randomly, but that isn't a big deal since rotating it once usually fixes it. Still something to be worked out before public release.
Thanks, I stand corrected. That's really interesting.
The point is that someone is more likely to power it off or wipe it if it's locked. ... I'm assuming that a passcode could be cracked or the data extracted in some way, so I'm afraid to put anything on there that I wouldn't mind in the hands of a crook.
Too bad you don't see the potential.