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There's no reason to cite a Google-translated version of this article when a suitable, well-explained English article exists in the New York Times: https://mobi

There's no reason to cite a Google-translated version of this article when a suitable, well-explained English article exists in the New York Times: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/technology/fingerprint-security-smartphones-apple-google-samsung.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/technology/fingerprint... As the article notes, you really need more than one imprint in order to get into a phone - the authors suggest that five distinct imprints could get into about 40-50% of phones, which fits within the 5 try limit imposed by many systems.

dang 9y ago
Right. Url changed from https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A//www.mobilegeeks.de/news/fingerabdrucksensor-sicherheit-generalschluessel/ https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https.... Submitters: Please don't post Google translate links.
arielweisberg 9y ago
From the NYT article. > The researchers did not test their approach with real phones, and other security experts said the match rate would be significantly lower in real-life conditions. Still, the findings raise troubling questions about the effectiveness of fingerprint security on smartphones. I wonder what the actual impact/severity is.