ArloTimetraveler

How analysts make their predictions. A step by step explanation.

1) Get out their crystal ball

2) Hold in the right hand either their rabbit's foot or crystal (whichever analytical philosophy they follow)

3) Then they guess their ass off.

I don't want to be seen as a close-minded individual. They may do a web search to get some other individual guesses.

lkrupp said:

bsimpsen said:

randominternetperson said:

I say this when Apple does it, and I'll say it now:  going from learning of a hardware defect to releasing a fix in 2 weeks is pretty darn impressive.  

Having said that, this defect is more ridiculous that any Apple bug/oversight than I can think of.

My assumption is that this can't be as bad as the article implies.  Surely I can't walk up to your Samsung phone, add a screen protector and now I can unlock your fingerprint-protected phone, right?  It's gotta be that if you have a certain type of protector on when you enroll your fingerprint any finger thereafter will unlock it.  Which means that I can't use this vector to attack any phone that didn't start with a bad screen protector.  That seems plausible, right?  

Yes, that seems plausible. If that's the issue, Samsung's problem was in not requiring some minimum quality level for enrollment of a fingerprint. That's not a hardware defect, that's a rookie level error in important security software. In the past, Apple has fixed software security problems in well under two weeks from discovery. I am not impressed by Samsung in this instance.

Wait, wait, I thought Apple has a monopoly on QA issues.

lkrupp said:

Wait, wait, I thought Apple has a monopoly on QA issues.

wood1208 said:

It's Samsung. Throw something half backed to users than buy time to fix it.