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Edited by Euler:
9/23/2013 2:36:58 PM
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iPhone 5S Fingerprint Security Hacked
[quote]Germany's Chaos Computer Club says it has cracked the protection around Apple's fingerprint sensor on its new iPhone 5S, just two days after the device went on sale worldwide.
In a post on their site, the group says that their biometric hacking team took a fingerprint of the user, photographed from a glass surface, and then created a "fake fingerprint" which could be put onto a thin film and used with a real finger to unlock the phone.
The claim, which is backed up with a video, will create concerns for businesses which see users intending to use the phone to access corporate accounts. While it requires physical access to the phone, and a clean print of one finger which is one of those used to unlock the phone, it raises the risk of a security breach.[/quote]
[url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/22/apple-iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacked]Linky[/url]
Great name for a hacking group. Now apparently anyone with some sticky tape and a half-decent DSLR can break into your phone if they have physical access to it. As oil tends to deposit relatively easily on an iPhone, it's highly likely that there would be easily recoverable fingerprints on the touchscreen or case of a phone.
If hacking the fingerprint scanner is as easy as the Germans claim, Apple's major selling factor has pretty much been flung out of the window.
Or they'll continue to sell more because they're Apple, I think the second one is more likely.
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1 ReplyOr we could take a set of bolt cutters to your index finger, and get it that way. Might be easier.
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>iPhone >security Pick one.
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man who saw this coming
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I thought this hasnt been confirmed at all,.
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How does this work? The scanner doesn't even read a fingerprint; it reads the capillaries under the skin. How would a photograph correctly transmit the same information?
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7 RepliesHahahaha Apple is so superior to everything! [spoiler]Not really[/spoiler]
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I personally think the whole finger print thing is a bad idea because it in itself is a security risk
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Tackle him to get his fingerprint!
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That doesn't sound easy at all.
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So all I need to do is to get their fingerprint from a smooth surface, photograph it, then photo copy it onto another clear surface, and then put that against the sensor.... all without them knowing? Lolapple. (if you missed the sarcasm, then get medical attention.)
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I doubt you could recover the print from the phone you took. Each individual print is different, so you'd have to find a clean, non smudged print of the finger that was used on what assuredly is a device with many crossing and overlapping prints. You can also keep the old 4 digit code in place as well.
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Because the number pass code doesn't exist. And because people are going to spend their time recovering fingerprints with tape.
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How would this apply to other fingerprint scanners for other machines? Aren't they just as risky then?
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People won't care, because Apple. Second, when I heard about the fingerprint scanner, I thought about doing this, to a family member. Because it would even be to hard to do yourself.
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4 Replieslol just goes to show, newer does not always mean better. (what i mean by that is a 'good old-fashioned' number lock is a better security system than this; it would take much longer to crack a 4 or 6 digit lock (without any fancy tech / software) than to do this)
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I doubt this will be much of a concern for the common person.
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Not really surprising. Most things can be broken, fooled or hacked.
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LOL Also I read a YouTube comment earlier saying that the Touch ID was a incognito scanner for the FBI Top lol
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Do people really put so much vital information on their phone, they think they need this feature?
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Hahaha! I was waiting for this to happen, it's a trick that works on a lot of scanners, IDK why people expected the iPhone to be any different...
