The Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple’s new iPhone fingerprint scanner. The scanner is one of the distinguishing features of Apple’s new iPhone 5S. It was not immediately clear whether CCC’s claims were true, but two prominent iPhone security experts reportedly verified them. It pulled its trick, CCC said, by photographing an iPhone user’s fingerprint and then printing that photo onto a transparent sheet. The sheet was used to create a mold for a fake finger. And — voila.
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German Hackers Claim They Cracked iPhone Fingerprint Scanner
Posted by: David Vranicar September 23, 2013 10:05 AMThe Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple’s new iPhone fingerprint scanner. The scanner is one of the distinguishing features of Apple’s new iPhone 5S. It was not immediately clear whether CCC’s claims were true, but two prominent iPhone security experts reportedly verified them. It pulled its trick, CCC said, by photographing an iPhone user’s fingerprint and then printing that photo onto a transparent sheet. The sheet was used to create a mold for a fake finger. And — voila.