Fingerprint sensors are considered insecure due to the relative ease with which
they can be bypassed, either create a mould from a sample fingerprint, or more
morbidly just chop off the finger. That's why when you restart the iPhone you
can't use touchID to unlock it first time.
Barclays are using finger scanners which use infrared light to map the
structure of veins, it's just as secure as a fingerprint and only works on live
tissue.
PIN codes can't be guessed or faked unless the user is lax with security ie
using the same PIN for everything or writing it down.
Samsung have had a fingerprint scanner since the Galaxy S6, or possibly the S5.
Motorola used to use one years ago but it was horribly unreliable.
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On 5 Feb 2016, at 17:30, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote:
Come on! Pass codes are common but they aren't secure and certainly not a key
security mechanism for Apple. Touch ID is.
I wouldn't mind a very small wager that it will with the Mac before too long.
And didn't I read somewhere that Samsung are copying the idea in their next
smartphone series?
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> On 5 Feb 2016, at 12:20, Jason P. Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's not their key security system. Pass codes are- you can circumvent
> touchid in normal usage, therefore it's not key!
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