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I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.
by jontas 13y ago
I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.
- danabramov 13y agoBut would they still go about implementing it? I mean, it sounds crazy from a business perspective.
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- afterburner 13y agoWhat if the NSA told them they had to have access to the data, or else jail and whatnot.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoAm I understanding this correctly? What if the NSA went to Apple and said you have to get us access to everyone's fingerprints or you'll go to jail and other stuff, so Apple put a fingerprint scanner on the iPhone? It seems like a stretch to me.
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- gknoy 13y agoMore of: - Apple releases the new finger print reader 5S - NSA: "Heyyy ... we'd like those." - Apple: ".... Crap." (or: "Sure!")
- jlgreco 13y agoMuch more likely: "Do it, or your datafeed of intel from industrial espionage will run dry."
- lttlrck 13y agoNor would they bother explicitly highlighting that it's kept local...
- typon 13y agoBut that's exactly what they want you to think.
- laureny 13y agoMakes me think of all these companies that your passwords are secure until one day, someone hacks their database and decrypts them. When confronted, the company says "But they were very secure, you should have mentioned that by 'secure' you meant "with one way encryption".
- swamp40 13y agoHonestly, to effectively market this technology in today's waters, they have to say that it's kept local. If they send out 8 bytes of your fingerprint data hidden in every picture you take (so your fingerprint can be regenerated by looking at your first 500 pictures) I doubt anyone will ever find it.
- jonmrodriguez 13y agoNot publicizing it would massively backfire as soon as the first teardown happens.