{"id":10228,"date":"2013-09-12T05:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/whoops_there_is_an_iphone_5s_fingerprint_hack.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:53","slug":"whoops-there-is-an-iphone-5s-fingerprint-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/whoops-there-is-an-iphone-5s-fingerprint-hack.html","title":{"rendered":"Whoops: There is an iPhone 5s Fingerprint Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biometric technology is amazing because when it is working perfectly it really is one of the best ways to ensure an individual&#8217;s identity is verified. I can&#8217;t guess your fingerprint for example. Sure, I can try to mimic it like you have seen in the movies but generally this isn&#8217;t very practical.<\/p>\n<p>An easier way to hack your fingerprint however is <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/09\/11\/girl-fingerprint-scanner\/?utm_cid=mash-prod-email-topstories&#038;utm_emailalert=daily\">shown <\/a>below &#8211; Redditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/iZeeHunter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iZeeHunter<\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/funny\/comments\/1m628n\/the_new_iphone_5s_provides_unmatched_security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the image<\/a> Wednesday, along with the caption: &#8220;The new iPhone 5S provides unmatched security with its new Fingerprint lock, which makes your personal data even harder to reach!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/iphone-5-fingerprint-hack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2013\/09\/iphone-5-fingerprint-hack-thumb-500x495-13087.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-5-fingerprint-hack.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether this photo hurts Apple or not remains to be seen but a way around such a &#8220;hack&#8221; is to use multifactor authentication such as finger and voice or finger and password. Of course this would add increased levels of complexity &#8211; something Apple tried to reduce in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biometric technology is amazing because when it is working perfectly it really is one of the best ways to ensure an individual&#8217;s identity is verified. I can&#8217;t guess your fingerprint for example. Sure, I can try to mimic it like you have seen in the movies but generally this isn&#8217;t very practical. An easier way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,196,156,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18931,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions\/18931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}