Fingerprints as passwords: New iPhone Touch ID gets mixed security verdict

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinSep 11, 2013, 12:35 pm463 pts
Chad Miller Of all the new features of Apple's new iPhone 5S, few have drawn more attention than the built-in fingerprint scanner known as Touch ID. Apple billed it as an "innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger." More breathless accounts were calling it a…

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