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The NSA's gonna love the fingerprint collection from Apple.
by aw3c2 13y ago
The NSA's gonna love the fingerprint collection from Apple.
- kyriakos 13y agoi didn't consider it before.. but that is so true and scary at the same time.
- pwf 13y agoWhy? What are they going to do with your fingerprint?
- kyriakos 13y agofingerprints are a means of identifying you. I don't know about the laws where you are but in my country the police and state do not have fingerprints of every citizen, just the ones with criminal records. In case of a crime the police matches prints in the scene with the ones in the db of usual suspects plus the people who have a motive for the particular case. If they had a database of everyone's fingerprints I can't imagine how many times innocents would be wrongfully incriminated.. and you know with USA security agencies who can make foreigners disappear and end up on Guantanamo bay.. this is scary.
- pwf 13y agoSorry, it's not scary, and mentioning Guantanamo Bay is extremely paranoid and way out of line. If they're really out to get you they don't need your fingerprint.
- ecopoesis 13y agoExcept they specifically said the fingerprint is never sent across the Internet, but is instead stored locally on the A7 chip.
- jenius 13y agoAh, the NSA doesn't need the internet for these things. They will have a custom backdoor that slurps up the fingerprint as soon as you plug in your phone to sync.
- mixmastamyk 13y agoUntil their team of analysts finds a way in... or secret court orders it.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Except they specifically said the fingerprint is never sent across the Internet And no one has ever found exploits in mobile devices that allow data that is supposed to be locally stored to be remotely accessed.
- cschmidt 13y agoThey're not uploaded from the phone (in theory at least).
- kyriakos 13y agoare you sure that this is in the world where Showden exists?
- rsl7 13y agoI shall use my middle finger then.
- goshx 13y agoepic.
- mtm 13y agoApparently, the fingerprint data is stored directly on the A7 and is not accessible to non-OS software; also, not backed up to iCloud. It will be interesting to see just how secure that data is.
- derefr 13y agoPresumably it's just a bog-standard TPM (the only non-standard part being that it's part of a SoC.)
- Aqua_Geek 13y agoSupposedly the data is encrypted, stored in the A7, and never leaves the phone.