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Every single review that I've read has mentioned that it does not work 100% of the time that the reviewer expected it to. That's the first thing that makes it o
by hungerstrike 9y ago
Every single review that I've read has mentioned that it does not work 100% of the time that the reviewer expected it to. That's the first thing that makes it obvious to me because they chose to champion something that does not work over something that does. Biometric security implementations are all gimmicky.
The second thing is their claims and their focus on marketing around security. This was easily beaten in its first week in the real world! So it's not really that secure is it?
The third thing is that Apple has a long history of choosing gimmicks over actual functionality. The OS X dock is just one example of this.
- mikeash 9y agoNot working 100% of the time when it ought to is evidence that they do care about security. There's always a tradeoff between false positives and false negatives in these systems. Favoring false positives is better for usability, and favoring false negatives is better for security. The most usable biometric system in the world would be one that's hardcoded to return "success" no matter what. The second thing means they maybe didn't succeed to the extent they wanted to, but certainly doesn't tell us that security wasn't even a goal. The third thing is irrelevant to the question at hand.
- mikestew 9y agoEvery single review that I've read has mentioned that it does not work 100% of the time that the reviewer expected it to. Neither does TouchID, and you’ll pry that from my cold, dead, fingers, one of which will probably be hovering over the TouchID sensor.