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CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken
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.
Yes, Apple has been confirmed lying due to a gelatin finger being able to program the TouchID sensor to begin with. No blood vessels, well below the temperature of a human body, and certainly no pulse.
If their technology looked for these things, than a gelatin finger couldn't be used... ever.
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Oh really. So how do you imagine you copy a capacitative image on a photocopier?
Touch ID isn't a visual scanner augmented by a capacitative test for the presence of something with a similar capacitance to a finger. It's a capacitative scanner. Until there is such a thing as a capacitative copier, photocopying ain't going to work. Regardless of what finger like substrate you use.