It's unclear to me if Touch ID already ignores dead tissue. I can find some reputable sources claiming it does, but there seems to be a lack of consensus. > Ma

It's unclear to me if Touch ID already ignores dead tissue. I can find some reputable sources claiming it does, but there seems to be a lack of consensus. > Mashable repeatedly asked Apple, Google, and Samsung for comment on the matter, but received not a single response to our numerous inquiries. We also reached out to a host of biometric security experts, hackers, digital law experts, and forensic pathologists in an attempt to get to the bottom of what has passed from the realm of dark thought experiment to serious inquiry, but the responses (or lack thereof) only further muddied the waters. The articles I find claiming touch ID rejects dead fingers seem to be written by people who have no idea what they're talking about, so I would not take claims about its liveness guarantees (hah) seriously. People mostly seem to be confusing credible claims about rejecting e.g. pictures of fingerprints with incredible claims about detecting if a piece of tissue is alive or not.