As you know that Apple’s New iPhone 5S is coming to market with its many amazing and rumored features. It has also a Fingerprint Sensor which is already discussed by many websites but we will discuss about how it can be hacked.
Some of the iPhone rumors are claiming that it won’t be capable of making payments at retail locations. Right now some of the merchants are already allowing SmartPhones to make purchases and it is possible to use Paypal instead of the Credit cards and some also will allow Near Field Communication (NFC) feature of the smartphones for transactions.
According to a website, iPhone 5S to Have Fingerprint Scanner and NFC on the Home Button.
But the fact is, Android NFC implementations have some security flaws still being worked out, if Fingerprint Scanner will be used to making purchases then your new iPhone 5S could make a trouble for you, so it’s probably a good thing the iPhone fingerprint scanner can’t be used for making purchases.
Wired writes:
| Apple would be smart to add biometric technology to the iPhone. Fingerprint authentication is a good balance between convenience and security for a mobile device. Biometric systems are seductive, but the reality isn’t that simple. They have complicated security properties. For example, they are not keys. Your fingerprint isn’t a secret; you leave it everywhere you touch. |
Well the good news for you is that the iPhone 5S will still have the traditional PIN password as a fallback. Better, the iPhone fingerprint scanner system has a processor and storage separate from the iPhone 5S CPU, meaning it should be more difficult to hack.
Are you worried about your New iPhone 5S?
Touch ID doesn’t use NFC…
What a misleading piece of Crap for a Title, to this NON article. This is a useless article with a sensationalist headline just to waste peoples time and raise your web site stats.
I will not bother to click any links to your site in the future. Try writing some actual articles that have some sort of value instead of this crap. WASTE OF TIME
Sorry if it looks you inappropriate, We are here to make you aware about the latest threats and it looks like you never read the complete article, have you noticed the ? after the Title- This line between the article ‘But the fact is, Android NFC implementations have some security flaws still being worked out, if Fingerprint Scanner will be used to making purchases then your new iPhone 5S could make a trouble for you, so it’s probably a good thing the iPhone fingerprint scanner can’t be used for making purchases.’
The actual thing is, your iPhone 5S could be hackable if Fingerprint Scanner will be used to making purchases’
We also have some strong sources like- Wired(http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/what-if-apples-new-phone-has-fingerprint-authentication/)
inquisitr (http://www.inquisitr.com/943528/iphone-fingerprint-scanner-hacking-nfc-apple-iphone-5s-release-date/)
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I do suggest that the correct way to title this article (and it would most likely generate almost as much traffic to your site) would have been.
“Is Apple’s iPhone Fingerprint Scanner hackable?”
Kim DotCom tweeted this earlier today’
“Apple is helping the #NSA with a global fingerprint database. Ask yourself if you want to be in it before you buy the #iPhone5S”
Although I don’t believe that Apple would set out to do this intentionally, it is entirely feasible and technologically possible that the NSA will one day become in possession of millions of fingerprint samples, matched with a lot of information about the owners of those prints.
we just made that correct, and can we have the link of the tweet status
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/379528482193043456
You might want to take the 2nd “is” out of the tittle.
It now reads
Is Apple’s iPhone Fingerprint Scanner is hackable?
Should be
Is Apple’s iPhone Fingerprint Scanner hackable?
Thanks for your suggestion, we are making a change in that.
Yeah this is bad. First, learn proper grammar. Second, anything can be hacked. The question is what would someone do with a fingerprint?
What if a person shows a picture of a fingerprint, say Jamie Diamond’s fingerprint.
This whole fingerprint thing is insane. Stop it.