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Until every mobile device Apple ships has this built in, I think this falls a bit more in the category of a novelty... at least for the foreseeable future.
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Once your fingerprint is compromised, you can never rely on it again.
But you have ten fingers...
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The sensor is epi-dermal, which means reads underneath the skin, so it does not solely rely on seeing the prints. There is a steel ring, which probably senses capacitance. Will there be exploits? Probably. Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO. In any case, I would like to see the evolution of this tech.
"Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO." They certainly didn't seem to test whether a phone would get acceptable reception if held in a rather common way.
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Once your fingerprint is compromised, you can never rely on it again.
Who says you have to actually use your finger? Why not something disposable you keep on your keychain/ring/necklace/tie/earlobe that looks like a finger to the reader?
I can't believe it took this long and it was left to Apple to "innovate" on this. Adding a fingerprint scanner to every keyboard and mouse has been a no-brainer for at least a decade. The scanners cost $10! And adding them to smartphone and tablets should have happened from the get go. We're talking orders of magnitude in simplification of security. And its dead obvious. So what the hell took so long? And why does it…
Are fingerprint scanners a commodity? Apple purchasing $300M of IP, and retooling their production process seems to indicate that it's not as simply as gluing a $10 part onto your product.
[1] http://gizmodo.com/how-the-iphone-5ss-fingerprint-scanner-wo...
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The sensor is epi-dermal, which means reads underneath the skin, so it does not solely rely on seeing the prints. There is a steel ring, which probably senses capacitance. Will there be exploits? Probably. Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO. In any case, I would like to see the evolution of this tech.
A few years ago, some students from my local university went around to all of the fingerprint solution companies that were exhibiting at the CeBIT fair. All of the products that the respective companies agreed to be challenged were in fact fooled by something that originated as a fingerprint on a drinking glass.
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The sensor is epi-dermal, which means reads underneath the skin, so it does not solely rely on seeing the prints. There is a steel ring, which probably senses capacitance. Will there be exploits? Probably. Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO. In any case, I would like to see the evolution of this tech.
The prefix "epi" means above or on top. Perhaps you're thinking of "hypodermal," which means underneath the skin.
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The sensor is epi-dermal, which means reads underneath the skin, so it does not solely rely on seeing the prints. There is a steel ring, which probably senses capacitance. Will there be exploits? Probably. Are Apple engineers incompetent to think of obvious exploits? I would put my money on NO. In any case, I would like to see the evolution of this tech.
AFAIK capacitance of your skin can change very frequently and rapidly. Drink too little for two days -> skin dry -> resistance goes up steeply. Even using a touchpad for an hour might dry your skin up (sidenote: I sometimes even have to moisten my fingers so my MBP touchpad registers my touches well).
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I've been watching this space like a hawk for years now. How did I miss the iBeacon?
wwdc 2013, they're in iOS7 which was not yet released - hence to real applications and just a few examples of hardware
I had a fingerprint reader on my last leptop and it was a novelty. Apple inventing stuff that has already been invented since the mp3 player - but unfortunately getting massive amounts oof uptake.