This is fairly unsurprising to anyone with even a modicum of understanding as to how these sensors actually work and the decade long history of researchers brea

This is fairly unsurprising to anyone with even a modicum of understanding as to how these sensors actually work and the decade long history of researchers breaking them with Photoshop, gummy bears, latex and spit. What concerns me more is the claims they make about the "secure enclave". Maybe I'm just paranoid, but historically if data does exist, then it will be abused. The TouchID sensor, coupled with its strong bullshit security claims by Apple, in addition to the claims made about how data is never sent by Apple because of the "secure enclave", makes me think that this would be a very convenient way to create a global voluntary fingerprint database tied to every aspect of everyone's identity without freaking anyone out. If a government were to release something like this, they'd be sued into the ground and screamed against for breaking core privacy covenants. But when Apple does it's just brilliant and revolutionary. Reasonable technically informed paranoia is what made the NSA releases fairly unsurprising to me as well. My rule with security is that if it can be done, then it will be abused. It's basically a Murphy's law for humanity. Trust nothing. Trust no one. Doubt everything.