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elijahg said:

macplusplus said:

elijahg said:

spheric said:

Don't others have ultrasonic fingerprint readers? The problem is that they're really easy to fool with a 3D texture, since they have no way to discern actual living tissue the way the Touch ID sensor does. 

Nor does Touch ID do so. No idea how secure the acoustic fingerprint sensors are, but they're damn fast.

That’s an old hoax. 

“The one minute video shows someone using their index finger to register Touch ID on a newly set-up iPhone 5s. Once the setup has been completed, they then apply a tape to their middle finger which, presumably, contains a transfer of the index fingerprint. That unlocks the phone.”

How do we know that the middle finger is not already registered? Since Touch ID is electric field based it can also work behind that tape on the middle finger.

Here's some more proof it's not infallible/hoax. It's ok, you don't have to defend every minute thing that isn't perfect about Apple. They aren't doomed if you concede occasionally. Touch ID is good enough security despite being foolable through a convoluted method.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220130308838%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20130308838&RS=DN/20130308838

It is a capacitive sensor, not optical one, that cannot be fooled with a playdoe imprint as that bozo insults our intelligence.

“[0003] Fingerprint sensing technology has become widespread in use and is often used to provide secure access to sensitive electronic devices and/or data. Generally, capacitive fingerprint sensors may be used to determine an image of a fingerprint through measuring capacitance through each pixel of a capacitive sensor. The higher the capacitance, the nearer the surface of an adjacent or overlying finger to the pixel. Thus, fingerprint ridges provide a higher capacitance in an underlying pixel than do fingerprint valleys. There are other types of fingerprint sensors, such as optical sensors. ”

Any analog event can be fooled/reproduced with adequate amount of research and engineering but not like those bozos claim to have achieved.

bennettvista said:

lkrupp said:

Can someone quote the basic law of the universe that states all software must be maintained in perpetuity once it exists? Is it some rule that software must be immortal and that an operating system must continue to support legacy software until the last user of it decides to delete it? Does the same go for hardware too? Do legacy ports need to remain until the last peripheral that uses them stops working? Apparently that’s how some here think, no?

It's still a basic flaw. Computers are tools meant (in this case) to serve creative individuals - writers, photographers, filmmakers, artists, etc...  You can still read a letter that Ernest Hemingway typed in 1930 or a photograph that Ansel Adams made in 1940, but you can't watch a film created in Final Cut in 2009 or a story written in Word in 1989.  There will be more lost works of art in the digital era - either because the file can't be opened or the work remains lost on some hard drive without the dead owner's password.

It doesn’t work like that. Libraries collect digital works and store them on persistent media. There are established procedures for that job.

elijahg said:

spheric said:

Don't others have ultrasonic fingerprint readers? The problem is that they're really easy to fool with a 3D texture, since they have no way to discern actual living tissue the way the Touch ID sensor does. 

Nor does Touch ID do so. No idea how secure the acoustic fingerprint sensors are, but they're damn fast.

That’s an old hoax. 

“The one minute video shows someone using their index finger to register Touch ID on a newly set-up iPhone 5s. Once the setup has been completed, they then apply a tape to their middle finger which, presumably, contains a transfer of the index fingerprint. That unlocks the phone.”

How do we know that the middle finger is not already registered? Since Touch ID is electric field based it can also work behind that tape on the middle finger.

mcdave said:

macplusplus said:

tzeshan said:

chasm said:

tzeshan said:

I cannot sync document folder between a MacBook Pro and an iMac through iCloud. What I may have done wrong? 

It’s not really anything to do with the topic, but the most likely reason is that we’re talking about two different document folders; one on each machine. The correct approach (if you wanna do this through iCloud) is to have one document folder: the one on iCloud. You then make aliases of that folder on your two machines. If it helps, you can rename the aliases to “iCloud document folder“ or something like that so that it is distinguishable from the mandatory Documents folder that you have in your user folder on both machines. Just put all the documents you want to be synced into the “iCloud documents folder“ on either machine, and it will always be in sync.

Another way to do this without using any cloud service is through programs such as Sync Two Folders (limited but free) and ChronoSync (powerful and an excellent value, but not free).

Thanks. However, I have files and folders just under the iCloud Drive folder. They cannot be seen from the other Mac. 

Obviously. How do you expect that the two Macs use each other’s Desktop and Document folders? Use File Sharing to make this Mac’s Desktop and Documents folders visible from the other Mac and access it as a remote computer, i.e click the remote computer name under Devices menu of the Finder window’s left pane.

I thought this was handled by iCloud these days (my old El Capitan doesn’t cut it)

El Capitan does support iCloud Drive but not iCloud Documents and iCloud Desktop folders. Minimum macOS Sierra is required for those.

StrangeDays said:

macplusplus said:

StrangeDays said:

Yikes. Yeah this is a nitemare when it comes to ease of use. They need to refactor...

Nightmare how?

1) The file must reside in iCloud.
2) Right click / Share / Add People. On iOS: Select / Share button / Add People.

If you want to add full UNIX style server capabilities to a personal mobile device with all Directory services LDAP etc. that's another story...

That isn’t the problematic part. Sharing a file via link and not recipient is the problem. See the steps dealing with Copy Link. Primarily that you first have to go a round-about way to get the link, and then separately must set the file to access to anyone with the link. This is a single-step in Dropbox via right-click, Copy Link. done. Paste to anybody anywhere. 

It’s not broken, but there is unnecessary friction.

Also, no way to share a folder, which mandates using Dropbox still. Why? iCloud Drive leveraging a customers general iCloud storage subscription could be a dropbox killer for Apple customers. Not yet.  

Yes Dropbox’ is “Paste to anybody anywhere” like anonymous FTP. Apple’s sharing is more refined, you can share to a selected person, or to anyone, using the options in that Add People sheet. First click the options arrow at the bottom of that sheet to get “anyone”.

Regarding folder sharing, it is not technically much difficult to imitate this on the web, as we’ve seen hundreds of times the last two decades. But, if you want to go deeper than the web as in the iCloud and want to make this a default storage architecture for all your OSes, then you must resolve myriad of security and performance issues related to such a virtualization. All we can ask right now may be “if it works then don’t fix it” and fortunately iCloud’s idiosyncratic file sharing works surprisingly well. I like Microsoft OneNote and I’ve built a whole business workflow on iOS thanks to OneNote but unfortunately sync to OneDrive fails most of the time and I cannot get it working as fluently as iCloud sharing.