iPhone 5s Fingerprint Scanner

[Stephen Hart]

Here's David Pogue, of The New York Times, on the fingerprint scanner in the new iPhone 5s and how some dedicated technicians bypassed it.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/ ... technology

Note a few points:

1. Anyone doing this on the sly must find a near-perfect print of the finger you use to wake your iPhone. Even if there is a perfect print on your iPhone, there's only a 1 in 10 chance that it's the right one.

2. They must create a 3D model of the fingerprint. A mere image will not work. (In this case, they used printed circuit board manufacturing technology to make a mold used to make a 3D model.)

3. They must get this right within five attempts and before you brick your phone via iCloud.

4. I can imagine a number of ways Apple could tweak iOS to decrease the odds that this kind of exploit could work.

[windyblue]

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