To be fair Apple hasn't said anything about liveness checks or any other safeguards against faked/duplicated fingerprints. All they talked about was how the fin

To be fair Apple hasn't said anything about liveness checks or any other safeguards against faked/duplicated fingerprints. All they talked about was how the fingerprint storage itself is secure, hardware level and local. The hack that gets the fingerprints off of the chip by exploiting some implementation related vulnerability would be a big deal. TouchID is just another fingerprint reader - albeit one that's easier to use.