CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 22, 2013 @06:58AM from the well-if-that's-all dept.

hypnosec writes with word that the Chaos Computer Club claims to have "managed to break Apple's TouchID using everyday material and methods available on the web. Explaining their method on their website, the CCC hackers have claimed that all they did was photograph a fingerprint from a glass surface, ramped up the resolution of the photographed fingerprint, inverted and printed it using thick toner settings, smeared pink latex milk or white woodglue onto the pattern, lifted the latex sheet, moistened it a little and then placed it on the iPhone 5S's fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone." Update: 09/22 21:32 GMT by T :Reader mask.of.sanity adds a link to a video of the hack.

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Re:Easy! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-22 11:54 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The UK is worse, The judge can ask someone 30 times for their password, then throw the book at them with 90 years (30 three year stints for RIPA violations, served consecutively.)
At least the US has a Constitution where some law student might see something like this and get someone out, but there isn't much protection in the UK (for example, truth isn't a defense to libel/slander charges.)