A team with the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has found a way to deceive the new Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5s, allowing access to the phone by using 'easy everyday means'.
The team uses a photograph of a fingerprint from a glass surface to create copy of the user's fingerprint and get into the iPhone. As you can see in the video below, once they have the fingerprint, the copy works pretty well
The CCC believe this is evidence that fingerprint biometrics is a bad way to secure a device that could hold lots of sensitive information.
"It is plain stupid to use something that you can´t change and that you leave everywhere every day as a security token", said CCC spokesperson Frank Rieger.
This, for our money is a mild overreaction. While we might agree that fingerprint technology is a bad way to secure items of national security, it does seem like a pretty fair way to lock up a smartphone. It's unlikely that someone will go to these lengths to break into your phone, no matter how much they want to read your private tweets.
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