Comment The heater really works (Score 5, Funny) 232
It's powered by flaming batteries.
It's powered by flaming batteries.
I'd doubt it. Everyone just wants to wallow in their ignorance.
I already mentioned this several minutes ago!
The iPhone 5s doesn't store the fingerprint itself, it just stores specific data points. Apple states that the fingerprint data is stored a secure portion of the A7, and it never uploaded to iCloud, or stored on Apple's servers, and never leaves the iPhone itself.
Also, I'd be very surprised if the stored data isn't hashed.
The fingerprint reader in the iPhone 5s uses a capacitive sensor, not an optical one, so Schneier's proposed hack wouldn't work.
Also, Apple requires you to create a PIN code when you enable the fingerprint sensor. If it's been 48 hours since you used the fingerprint sensor to authenticate, you have to use the PIN instead. Likewise, if you've just restarted the iPhone, you have to use the PIN for your first authentication, you can't use the fingerprint sensor.
You meant, "If I WERE independently wealthy..."
Stormy forgot to use the subjunctive!
Damn, I forgot to post this troll anonymously.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission