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Were people saying that this was secure? I thought it was just another fancy unlocking method like Google's "use your face to unlock"
by Navarr 13y ago
Were people saying that this was secure? I thought it was just another fancy unlocking method like Google's "use your face to unlock"
- makomk 13y agoYes, they were - for example http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/19/iphone-5s-fingerprint-scanner/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/19/iphone-5s-fingerprint...: "As for the tech itself, Rogers explains fingerprint scanning as a whole is more secure than the four-digit passcode. Copying someone's fingerprints remains a cumbersome process, not to mention pricey -- as much as $200,000, by some estimates." Edit - and http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/12/5s-fingerprint-scanner http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/12/5s-fingerprint-s... which someone linked elsewhere in this discussion: " And like the sensor in the iPhone 5S, the sensors ... can detect the ridge and valley pattern of your fingerprint not from the layer of dead skin on the outside of your finger (which a fake finger can easily replicate), but from the living layer of skin under the surface of your finger, using an RF signal. This will protect you from thieves trying to chop off your finger when they mug you for your phone (assuming they’re tech-literate thieves, of course), as well as from people with fake fingers using the fingerprint they lifted from your phone screen."