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My point was that for almost all users, it's conceivable that a PIN could be guessed or obtained by someone wanted access to the phone casually. A good friend o
by georgespencer 12y ago
My point was that for almost all users, it's conceivable that a PIN could be guessed or obtained by someone wanted access to the phone casually. A good friend of mine amazed me by casually reverse engineering my PIN over the course of a week in the pre-TouchID days of iPhone. He wasn't especially interested, he just watched me for a few days to crack it.
However a finger print is significantly harder for a casual interloper to simulate.
- yourad_io 12y agoUnless you've lost your phone, in which case your fingerprints are all over the device, and if they want to log in, they have to reconstruct it using "information" already on it. Granted re:casual interloper. And your friend just shoulder-surfed you, he didn't reverse engineer anything ;)