First Magazine Advertisement for iPhone 5s Appears, Highlights Touch ID Sensor

the ad does not mention that Touch ID was hacked only a few days after the release of the iphone :D :p :rolleyes:

Cloning a fingerprint to work on a fingerprint scanner isn't 'hacking'. Learning somebody's password and using that to login to their computer isn't 'hacking'.

Exploiting a bug in Apple's system to have the TouchID unlock when you whistle a certain tune to it: that's closer.

Damn, that is one foine-ass device...

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Then submit it as a tip next time! :)

This is a privacy concern, which is why Apple limited it to Apple apps.

There will be no privacy concern. TouchID is handled OS-level, not app-level. The app won't be able to get that information because it's OS-level.

Therefore if the intent of the fingerprint sensor is to only allow access to the owner of the fingerprint, then being able to lift a fingerprint and gain access to the device would be exploiting a weakness in the system.

So what you're saying is if I watched somebody put their password into their computer, and did the same to login to their system, that's 'hacking'. If my friend didn't let me use their Internet connection, and I hooked up using Ethernet, that's 'hacking'. If I mugged an old lady for her car keys and drove off in her 2CV, that's 'hacking' (after all, I am getting access without their authorisation).

The only reason I believe we're having this argument about this is because touch sensors haven't really been used in the general public, with such integration. Look at it from the bigger picture and you'll see that cloning a fingerprint is not hacking. There's really no difference between that and learning somebody's password -- both are a code that will need to be entered identically.

Sold out everywhere in Canada, haven't seen a single person with it. I guess only basement nerds got it.

Well it does seem to say "Limited Availability" in the left corner :p

Going off of the definition I cited, I don't believe it's incorrect to say it was hacked. As far as your example of the car keys, hacking is generally a term reserved for computer systems. Learning someone's code and gaining access could be considered hacking if the whole point of the security layer is to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access. Someone being able to "steal" someone else's password and subsequently gain access is a weakness of the system.

But if you learned one person's hotmail password and accessed their email, would it be right to claim 'Hotmail was hacked'?

Your statement implied that the system was rendered useless because it was busted wide open, regardless of the dictionary definition of each word you used.

Sold out everywhere in Canada, haven't seen a single person with it. I guess only basement nerds got it.

Exactly as long as YOU haven't seen anyone with one in the whole country of China then that means only hermits have them. :rolleyes: I've never seen a single person in the flesh on MR. Does that mean they don't exist?

the ad does not mention that Touch ID was hacked only a few days after the release of the iphone :D :p :rolleyes:

Don't be ridiculous

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