Crowd-sourced site offers cash, wine, Bitcoins for hackers to crack iPhone 5s' Touch ID

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  • Reply 61 of 68
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,772member
    Marvin wrote: »
    The photo isn't being used to bypass the sensor directly but your usual reporting style is expected. They used a high resolution scan of a fingerprint to make a rubber finger:

    Yeah, "my reporting style". Directly from their blog entry, which I linked:

    " First, the fingerprint of the enroled user is photographed with 2400 dpi resolution."

    Edit: The rest of the paragraph as follows.

    "The resulting image is then cleaned up, inverted and laser printed with 1200 dpi onto transparent sheet with a thick toner setting. Finally, pink latex milk or white woodglue is smeared into the pattern created by the toner onto the transparent sheet. After it cures, the thin latex sheet is lifted from the sheet, breathed on to make it a tiny bit moist and then placed onto the sensor to unlock the phone. This process has been used with minor refinements and variations against the vast majority of fingerprint sensors on the market."

    I don't see anything misleading about my sentence. I was aware of it because it's been reported on other Apple-centric websites already.
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  • Reply 62 of 68
    gatorguy wrote: »
    Reportedly hacked now. This group claims a photo of a print can be used to break TouchID.
    http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

    Same person so the biometrics are the same. They should've used a second person, so color me unconvinced.
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  • Reply 63 of 68
    Originally Posted by Marvin View Post
    your usual reporting style is expected.



    When the intention is this obvious, why not just be rid of it?
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  • Reply 64 of 68
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,772member
    dasanman69 wrote: »
    Same person so the biometrics are the same. They should've used a second person, so color me unconvinced.

    That's what the second video is supposedly showing. The twitter link is in my post too or you can follow the other half of the site team @ErrataRob also on twitter. Agreed it's not yet confirmed and it's possible the report is a scam or if not still may not meet the terms for paying the bounty.
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  • Reply 65 of 68
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,772member
    Marvin wrote: »
    When Android devices catch up and have sensors, I'm sure you'll be just as anxious to see them bypassed:

    http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/samsung-galaxy-note-3-will-feature-fingerprint-scanner-insiders-claim

    I may very well be the first to report it if/when it happens. I've been the first to report other unfavorable Google or Android news before, for instance Google being sued for scanning Gmail. Still no mention by AI even after I posted it here two or three weeks ago. I also send news articles to AI including some that might not cast Google or Android in the best light but they're not acted on until other sites start reporting it. I'll still make the effort tho.
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  • Reply 66 of 68
    droidftwdroidftw Posts: 1,009member

    A team claims to have defeated the TouchID system.  If anyone ever watched the MythBusters episode where they took on fingerprint scanners, the method to defeat the fingerprint scanner will sound very familiar.

     

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    First, the fingerprint of the enroled user is photographed with 2400 dpi resolution. The resulting image is then cleaned up, inverted and laser printed with 1200 dpi onto transparent sheet with a thick toner setting. Finally, pink latex milk or white woodglue is smeared into the pattern created by the toner onto the transparent sheet. After it cures, the thin latex sheet is lifted from the sheet, breathed on to make it a tiny bit moist and then placed onto the sensor to unlock the phone. This process has been used with minor refinements and variations against the vast majority of fingerprint sensors on the market.


     

    http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

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  • Reply 67 of 68
    droidftw wrote: »
    A team claims to have defeated the TouchID system using a photograph of the users fingerprint to create a "thin latex sheet" that can be used to beat it.  If anyone ever watched the MythBusters episode where they took on fingerprint scanners, the method to defeat the fingerprint scanner will sound very familiar.

    http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid

    You're a little late to the party.
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  • Reply 68 of 68
    droidftwdroidftw Posts: 1,009member

    Quote:


    Originally Posted by dasanman69 View Post





    You're a little late to the party.

     

    So I am.  You guys are fast!

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