German Hackers Say Hacking iPhone Fingerprint Detection Was Easy
Used a photograph of a fingerprint
A day after the iPhone 5S hit the streets, a group of hackers in Germany say they have successfully bypassed the biometric security on the Apple's Touch ID fingerprint sensor by using "easy everyday means."
The Chaos Computer Club announced late Saturday that it defeated the security device by photographing an iPhone user's fingerprint from a glass surface and using that captured image to verify the user's login credentials. The sensor, which resides under the home button, replaces the four-digit passcode to unlock the handset and authorize iTunes Store purchases.
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What makes this important is that Apple had been claiming that no photograph or even a cut off finger tip would work because the camera picked up patterns beneath the skin or some such hogwash.