Is this Samsung’s issue or Qualcomm’s issue. Either way it’s bad, but Samsung had to come clean.
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Samsung Admits Major Security Flaw in Galaxy S10 Under-Screen Fingerprint Sensor
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If they had a sense of humor it should’ve been the middle finger and not the thumb. Oh well.
Surely, this is a case where the device failed to work often enough that Samsung opened it up so it would fail on rather than off in certain cases. Which is, well, very Samsung of them.
The phrase half baked comes to mind.
Hopefully they can fix it in software, though you’d think they would have already if they could.
Hopefully they can fix it in software, though you’d think they would have already if they could.
that's the one I'd use to secure my work e-mail account in Samsung's secure folder thingy.
What a train wreck Samsung has become.
That's Samsung's logo on that device, they don't get to pass blame.
In a normal scenario if a print cannot be confirmed then it does not unlock. On an iphone if there are certain number of failed attempts on TouchID then it reverts to pin-code. It would appear that in Samsungs case when a print cannot be confirmed properly then it just gives the benefit of the doubt and unlocks anyway. This is a huge issue. A software fix can probably resolve this, however, a side effect will probably be that legitimate prints which didnt truly register but got waved on through by Samsungs software before, will now decline. Users may become puzzled that the device no longer is registering their correct finger.
Ouch, a nasty flaw and odd it wasn't picked up in testing, unless it was and they still pushed it out the door. Never mind it will get patched and the world will keep spinning and the media will move on. MacRumours die hard Apple fans however, maybe not so much... 
My first suspicion when the story broke, was that a fingerprint was trapped between the screen and screen protector and the sensor was reading that. Maybe its just horrifically bad code that allows a failed read to unlock the phone. Seems crazy that you would write it like that.
not if they didn't know about it. Which I sure hope they didn't. ***** up some technical aspect is one thing - but knowing about it and not fixing it would be an entire different dimension.
"Why doesn't Apple just put the fingerprint sensor under the screen, like Samsung?"
"Why doesn't the iPhone 11 ship with 5G?"
"What's Apple's answer to foldable phones?"
Gee, it's almost as though the technology isn't mature.
"Why doesn't the iPhone 11 ship with 5G?"
"What's Apple's answer to foldable phones?"
Gee, it's almost as though the technology isn't mature.
MacBooks are not catching fire like the note 7. This ban is probably SOP for airlines after the note 7 debacle.
But hey! They are FIRST!
Not even remotely surprising. What I find most surprising is all those people still believing that Samsung is the epitome of tech....sad.
Not even remotely surprising. What I find most surprising is all those people still believing that Samsung is the epitome of tech....sad.
Apple takes a bit of heat sometimes for being slow to market with certain innovations (Face ID, in-screen Touch ID someday I hope) but sometimes slower is better. Apple can come to the party late because when they do, they bring the good beer—not the cheap beer that the early arrivals bring.
Now I do recall that Touch ID could be fooled with a somewhat involved set of steps to a fake fingerprint out of some common polymer, but that’s a pretty concentrated attempt to fake out the Touch ID. In my opinion, you really aren’t fooling Touch ID, but are making a good fake fingerprint.
If/when Apple brings in-screen Touch ID to the party, I bet it won’t have these types of flaws.
Now I do recall that Touch ID could be fooled with a somewhat involved set of steps to a fake fingerprint out of some common polymer, but that’s a pretty concentrated attempt to fake out the Touch ID. In my opinion, you really aren’t fooling Touch ID, but are making a good fake fingerprint.
If/when Apple brings in-screen Touch ID to the party, I bet it won’t have these types of flaws.
There’s nothing to believe. iPhone don’t catch fire and explode as often as other phones.
Also the “ask any ER” comment is foolish
You have to go through great lengths to unlock a Face ID device as you've mentioned. As for the S10, anyone can carry around the gel in their pocket and unlock any S10 they see. Any security authentication can be compromised but there are different levels at which it can, and the S10 falls in the bottom now.
You compare case when any fingerprint can unlock phone like this one with security issue of face ID when somebody has to have access to your phone wile you are sleeping to set up taped-up glasses or acces to your phone to set up face ID wih mask on and then unlock it, it's just incomparable. The siblings is only real issue... It's very misleading..
I think many are blinded by a hatred of Apple
I have a S10 and had one of those screen protectors. I'm pretty sure what happened here.
When you apply a screen protector, you have to register your prints again, or it will not work.
If the protector is utterly crap, the prints you register will be as crap.
Then, the data will be too bad to actually be sufficiently different from another print so any print will do.
I'm guessing this is a tuning thing, they don't want the sensor to reject too many weak prints as it would mean a lot of failed reads (and angered users), but lowering it too much (as they obviously have) will make more or less any print work.
When you apply a screen protector, you have to register your prints again, or it will not work.
If the protector is utterly crap, the prints you register will be as crap.
Then, the data will be too bad to actually be sufficiently different from another print so any print will do.
I'm guessing this is a tuning thing, they don't want the sensor to reject too many weak prints as it would mean a lot of failed reads (and angered users), but lowering it too much (as they obviously have) will make more or less any print work.
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Well, at least she got it to work, HAHA. My S10 fingerprint sensor only worked about 50% of the time. I was constantly having to press my finger multiple times on the sensor. Never got it to work, despite the numerous "fixes" out there. I gave up and sold it.