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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
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The article is saying "won’t store actual images" but this isn't an actual company spokesman quote.
So if 'not an actual [...]' makes all the difference to you then why would you even bother taking that into consideration?
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Digital Negative is a new iPhone app which promises to save photos in Adobe’s DNG format. That is, it promises RAW images from your iPhone’s sensor. Leaving aside the debate of whether or not this is a good idea (more on that in a second), can an App Store app really get access to the raw, unprocessed data from the sensor? The answer is no, but to the developer’s credit, it goes just about as far as is possible.
A RAW file is literally the raw data from the image sensor, before it is even turned into color and luminance values, or let alone an actual image.
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'Not an actual image' can be as little as 'other file format'. And with an iPhone in hand a person has everything they need to figure out how the fingerprint data relates to an actual fingerprint.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
This is where these comments kind of go off the rails. Apple developed this - as they said at their keynote - because more than 50% of their users weren't using the passcode. For those users, the fingerprint sensor is clearly better than nothing.
Using the fingerprint sensor is also completely optional, and if you do choose to use it, you don't have to use it as a password for iTunes or the App Store.
And, again, everyone is free to continue using the passcode.
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According to the WSJ that you linked to in the previous post:
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Apple customers who wish the use Touch ID also have to create a passcode as a backup. Only that passcode (not a finger) can unlock the phone if the phone is rebooted or hasn’t been unlocked for 48 hours. This feature is meant to block hackers from stalling for time as they try to find a way to circumvent the fingerprint scanner.
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Users that are against using a passcode won't be able to use the fingerprint scanner without one so I don't see how this would help convincing them to get security.
And it shows that Apple knows that the fingerprint scanner can be circumvented.