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This is a marketing nightmare in the making... it's only a matter of time before the phone is jailbroken and the biometric data made accessible.
by yapcguy 13y ago
This is a marketing nightmare in the making... it's only a matter of time before the phone is jailbroken and the biometric data made accessible.
- hga 13y agoIndeed. Obviously this was in the works before Snowden et. al., but now it could catastrophically backfire.
- shervinafshar 13y agoI think some elaboration is in order. Given that it's a feature and you can still use those good old 4-digit codes, I don't see why it could backfire and turn into a marketing nightmare.
- hga 13y agoAh, you're constraining bad outcomes by rationality. Things frequently don't work that way; maybe even generally don't work that way.
- danabramov 13y agoWhose data, jailbroken phone owners'? I'm not following you.
- Geee 13y agoApparently the fingerprint data can only be accessed by the touch sensor through it's own hardware subsystem. The data is not stored on the main flash memory, and there's no way to access it from software running on the main processor. They explained it briefly in the keynote presentation.