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CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Easy! by amiga3D · · Score: 4, Funny

    sounds really trivial to break. I can see all kinds of kids doing this.

    1. Re:Easy! by noh8rz10 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Remember that a hacker won't know which of 5 fingers the owner uses, so that's another layer of security

    2. Re:Easy! by mysidia · · Score: 5, Funny

      you mean, besides just holding your hand against the sensor? As, if they have your phone, they probably also have you...

      How about you jailbreak the phone, and use a PIN to unlock it normally, BUT you customize the reader, so if certain of your fingers get held against the sensor --- it triggers a "disable power off function" and "start wipe device" command.

  2. I have a solution! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead of using a fingerprint, use a Nipple print!

  3. social engineering time by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what? I really love the sound of your voice. ... And there's this one word. I've always loved the sound of this word. ... I would really like to hear you say the word ..."passport".

  4. So what they proved is... by NoKaOi · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the iPhone's fingerprint scanner works well. I was expecting it to be a gimmick that would give more false negatives or false positives than real results. That these guys had to use the same methods they would use for a high-quality expensive fingerprint scanner, and that those methods actually worked, tells me the iPhone's fingerprint scanner has potential.

  5. Oh good... by rkww · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh good, now I can make a back-up fingerprint in case I lose my finger...