[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.

Actually, the Galaxy S5 fingerprint reader does not work the same as the iPhone version. The iPhone version requires one to press one's fingerprint stationary on the phone which could be duplicated.

However, the Galaxy S5 requires a finger print swipe with up to 3 fingers. Most complaints I saw on the internet say it doesn't always work if the swipe speed or the angle is different. Thus, the defect is, not that it can easily be duplicated, but that it takes several swipes to be recognized.

That is why they allow up to 3 fingers and recommend one be by a close relative like one's wife just in case one of the finger swipe speeds and angles cannot be duplicated.

This one will be more difficult to duplicate but also may be more difficult to use. One may be able to combine a pin and finger print but I won't know for sure until I receive my unit from Amazon next week.