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When will the Apple iPhone 5S Touch ID be cracked?

When will the Apple iPhone 5S Touch ID be cracked?

Asked by: Daniel Hegner in Technology » Consumer Electronics
Settled on 09/22/2013 19:10 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:By end of 2013 In a rather nervous video and associated blog post, Chaos Computer Club appears to demonstrate how they can get through Touch ID by taking high-resolution photographs of a fingerprint. Ironically, they claim the hack can be completed with “materials that can be found in almost every household” then go on to say that a 2400 dpi resolution photograph of the fingerprint must be used.

http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/22/biometrics-hacking-team-uses-photographed-fingerprint-to-get-past-touch-id/

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By end of 2013
By end of 2014
By end of 2016
By end of 2017 or never

Background

http://istouchidhackedyet.com/ is offering an award for the first person who can reliably and repeatedly break into an iPhone 5s by lifting [finger] prints (like from a beer mug). When will this reward be claimed and collected?

Since biometrics can't be revoked and in principle can not be viewed as secret keys many security experts argue that the whole idea about biometrics is flawed.

Find similar: apple, iphone, 5s, Touch ID, biometrics, security

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   Super Userkruijs

the defeat:

   Super Userkruijs

Read how it works (a post from 2004):
http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren?language=en

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