The Iranian group
defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which
allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints.
Apple‘s iPhone 5s, was launched just available in stores two weeks before with a new
feature of biometrics-based security system called "Touch ID",
that involves analyzing a user’s fingerprint and using that to unlock the
phone.
Apple launched the technology that it promises
will better protect devices from criminals and snoopers seeking access. With
this you can purchase things from the iTunes App Store. Basically, you can now
use it in place of your password.
"Fingerprint is
one of the best passcodes in the world. It's always with you,
and no two are exactly alike," according to
the Apple's website.
Last week Germany Hackers showed that how they were able to deceive Apple’s latest security
feature into believing they’re
someone they’re not, using a well-honed technique for creating a latex
copy of someone's fingerprint. Another interesting fact is that, Touch
ID is not only designed to scan the fingerprints of your fingers, it works with various
human body parts and appendages which are also not fingers.
An Iranian group of
iPhone Geeks from Tehran running a blog i.e. "i-Phone.ir"
contacted 'The Hacker News' with another
awesome Touch ID hack, shown that how they defeated the very basic phenomenon
of Fingerprinting scanner i.e. "No two
Fingerprints are exactly alike".
According to Apple, the chance that
Touch ID will misread a finger is 1 in 50,000 , this is because Touch ID is not
designed to capture the fingerprint in strict mode. It scans the fingerprint on
a very high-resolution (2400 dpi), to get and match the partial parts of an
impression for faster unlocking.
If the iPhone is not able to scan the thumb
impression in the strict mode to be unique, there is a possibility that out of
1000 thumb impressions iPhone's Touch ID system can count 2-3
impressions as of the same person.
It could be a feature only if 5 different keys (fingers) are of the same person,
but here we have 5 different people with the same key (finger),
absolutely Touch ID is not a family key system that should work for
Dad-Mom-sister and elder brother. it
worked successfully for both and many times on latest IOS firmware 7.0.2 and iPhone users will not receive any
patch soon for this.