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Touch ID is like a bike lock. It won't stop a sophisticated attacker, but it's enough to stop your coworkers from reading your messages, and it makes the phone
by jakobegger 11y ago
Touch ID is like a bike lock. It won't stop a sophisticated attacker, but it's enough to stop your coworkers from reading your messages, and it makes the phone worthless for thieves.
The biggest advantage of Touch ID is that people who never had a passcode on their phone now use it.
- K0nserv 11y agoThat's a good point. For people who never had a passcode it's big step up in security. It definitely depends on what the threat model is. If you are protecting yourself from coworkers it might be enough(depending on who your coworkers are). If you are protecting yourself against state level actors such as the FBI it's probably pretty worthless.
- jpalomaki 11y agoProblem with passcodes on mobile phone is that you need enter them so often that shoulder surfing becomes a problem.
- knodi123 11y agoThank you! Yes, absolutely. People need to learn the difference from "secure, in theory, in a perfect world" and "secure enough, in practice, in the real world". Just about every disagreement in this thread is from two people who are talking about two entirely different concepts of security.
- spdustin 11y agoIt doesn't on its own, but the secure enclave (that was created, in part, to keep biometrics data secured) sure does.