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Your cell phone's data is protected by a fingerprint reader or arbitrary-length passcode, while your wallet's data is protected by the other person not having a
by cballard 11y ago
Your cell phone's data is protected by a fingerprint reader or arbitrary-length passcode, while your wallet's data is protected by the other person not having a knife.
- cperciva 11y agoYour wallet is protected by the other person not having a knife. Your cell phone's data is protected by the other person not being willing to use their knife to cut off one of your fingers. ;-)
- cballard 11y agoMuggers are still stealing iOS devices, which people can just permanently brick via iCloud now, so I wouldn't expect that level of foresight!
- Bud 11y agoNope. TouchID doesn't work with a dead finger. Has to be alive. http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/why-a-disembodied-finger-cant-be-used-to-unlock-the-touch-id-se/ http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/why-a-disembodied-finger-...
- cperciva 11y agoI wasn't really being serious. But in practice such liveness sensors are incredibly easy to defeat.
- Bud 11y agoCan you prove that for TouchID specifically? You have to defeat both capacitance and RF sensors, btw. And remember, it needs to be "incredibly easy" by the standards of random unhinged violent criminals stupid enough to commit two felonies in order to secure a phone which will be completely useless within the 60 seconds or so it takes the victim to sign in with his Apple ID and brick the phone. Any bank accounts present on the device would also be nearly-instantly disabled. By the time you defeat TouchID, the device will be useless anyway. It's more than secure enough.
- kalleboo 11y agoExcept for when it works with glue http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/chaos-computer-club-hackers-trick-apples-touchid-security-feature/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/chaos-computer-club-hac...