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TouchID isn't to make you a better international spy, but rather to deal with realistic threats. The average person is much more likely to have their password
by a_c_s 10y ago
TouchID isn't to make you a better international spy, but rather to deal with realistic threats.
The average person is much more likely to have their password stolen by somebody watching them enter it over and over every time they look at their phone than somebody who is going to go through the trouble to replicate fingerprints.
- mdorazio 10y agoCompletely agree. My point was that if you get your phone stolen, it's pretty much guaranteed to be a random thief who just picked it up and doesn't care about your data, so the security method makes no difference. If you actually want true security, though, TouchID is no better than (and arguably worse than) a passcode against someone who is actually after your data.