[sirmaru]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

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.

Thanks for that information. It looks like I will use a password on my Samsung Galaxy S5 when I receive it next week. I won' be using the fingerprint security.

If you want more information on the Samsung Galaxy S5 cell phone to be released the end of this week, you can go here:

http://cellphoneforums.net/samsung-g...#axzz2yKWNhZ57