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Apple's Touch ID not only allows you to unlock your phone using your fingerprint, it also allows you to verify an Apple Pay transaction. Your fingerprints are supposed to belong only to you, making identifications using them "positive." But what would happen if it turns out that a fingerprint scanner isn't such a great security tool?
A group of hackers, the largest such group in Europe, now says that they can take a few photographs of your fingers, and employ commercially available software, to break into a fingerprint recognition system. The claim was made by the Chaos Computer Club at ... *
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Apple's Touch ID not only allows you to unlock your phone using your fingerprint, it also allows you to verify an Apple Pay transaction. Your fingerprints are supposed to belong only to you, making identifications using them "positive." But what would happen if it turns out that a fingerprint scanner isn't such a great security tool?A group of hackers, the largest such group in Europe, now says that they can take a few photographs of your fingers, and employ commercially available software, to break into a fingerprint recognition system. The claim was made by the Chaos Computer Club at ... *
from PhoneArena http://www.phonearena.com/news/Group-that-hacked-Touch-ID-last-year-is-back-with-an-easier-way-to-fool-your-fingerprint-scanner_id64193
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