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Old 04-07-2014, 06:05 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Not even slightly:

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabi.../d-id/1111637?
http://www.imore.com/touch-id-fooled...ed-fingerprint
https://www.google.com/search?q=ipho...erprint+fooled

It took them only a couple of days to fool (not hack, just fool) the iPhone fingerprint scanner, thus proving biometric security the farce it truly is. It can be fooled by lifting a latex print of your fingerprint, and wearing it like a glove.

Granted, that will still protect your phone from being casually accessed, but only to the extent at which you are already protected by using a basic password. So it's kind of pointless, although it does make a good media claim.
Agreed. This just adds an additional access point - it is no more secure that it ever was.
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