Along the lines of what haberman says: Most users don't care that their phone could be used against them in a court case. Maybe they should, but they don't, an

Along the lines of what haberman says: Most users don't care that their phone could be used against them in a court case. Maybe they should, but they don't, and pretending Fingerprint ID should be a form of two-factor authentication for your phones is silly. If users cared, they could use a passcode and the fifth amendment to protect them. It is far more likely for the average user to lose their phone by dropping it somewhere outside. At this time, we can't even get most users to use one-factor authentication. Hell, the mass media perpetuates feel-good stories where kids use an unlocked lost phone to return it to their owners[0], so even with this technology you'll have a hell of a time convincing people to lock their phone with even a 4-digit PIN. Stallman et al. have been telling us "your closed-source phone is spying on you" for years now, and it's clear that the education hurdle is far bigger than "fingerprints are self-incriminating". Just look the first half of the byline for [1] -- "The boy addicted to porn; the girl who let herself be sexually assaulted to get her BlackBerry back". [0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/kids-find-phone_n_3790762.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/kids-find-phone_n_3... (original at http://www.kym4.com/4/post/2013/08/awesome-lost-found.html http://www.kym4.com/4/post/2013/08/awesome-lost-found.html) [1] http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/08/beeban-kidron-inreallife-interview-teenagers http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/08/beeban-kidron-in... (posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6373073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6373073)