iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC (engadget.com)

The iPhone's NFC chip will soon have the ability open your house's and car's doors, as well as pay for your fare, reports The Information. From a report: The tech giant is reportedly gearing up to introduce a huge update for its devices' near-field communication chip, which is (at the moment) mostly used to make purchases via Apple Pay. Its employees already have access to the new features, the publication says, and have apparently been using their iPhones to access offices and buildings at Apple's HQ in Cupertino. While you can use iPhones to open a lot of smart locks via Bluetooth, NFC is considered the more secure option. According to the publication's sources, Apple has been working with HID Global, the company that made its security systems, to give iPhones the capability to gain access to buildings and offices since 2014. The company has reportedly been talking to transit card maker Cubic for years, as well.

Comments

Meh

[nospam007]

Sorry, but I put a NFC sticker inside my iPhone case years ago, thereby enabling it to open my front door.

I'd prefer an app to identify the owners of all those cats who come visiting my porch every day.

Re:Meh

[Anonymous Coward]

You know that these stickers are just wirelessly readable and writable memory devices, don't you? There's nothing preventing someone from copying the data and presenting it to the lock. There are smart cards with embedded processors that can do actual cryptographic authentication, but the NFC stickers are not of that kind.