Cracker of Apple’s fingerprint scanner to win booze, cash, and bitcoins

Ars Technica
By WIRED UKSep 21, 2013, 9:45 am433 pts
A prize of more than $19,000 (and counting) in cash, bitcoins, and booze is being offered to the first hacker to crack the fingerprint scanner on Apple's newly released iPhone 5S. The contest is being run by a micro venture capital firm and a group of security researchers and requires the hacker who wins the…

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