It took only days for the hackers of

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club to claim victory

in the challenge to break Apple’s vaunted new security feature in the iPhone 5s. The CCC “biometrics hacking team” used a photo of a fingerprint from a glass surface to fashion a fake finger that they then used to fool the newest iPhone into unlocking. “This demonstrates again,” the group said in a statement, “that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided.”

Actually, coque iphone 6 gamer it demonstrates no such thing.

The new iPhone debuted on Friday, September 20. The CCC team announced their successful hack roughly 48 hours later. But no fingerprint reader is unhackable.

Biometricinformation like fingerprints and retina scans are useful pieces of a multi factor authentication puzzle. Although the CCC claims they used “materials that can be found in almost every household,” it’s unlikely that many coque samsung a70 vintage bumper coque iphone 6s households have the imaging technology to capture a fingerprint in a 2400 dpi photograph, clean up the resulting image and print it at 1200 dpi “onto transparent sheet with a thick toner setting,” and then “smear pink latex milk or white woodglue” into the pattern to make a fake finger like the one that successfully bypassed the security of Touch ID.

Despite the slightly high end lab equipment, this isn’t exactly rocket science. The source fingerprint probably looked like this:

Cool, huh Except those pictures aren’t from the CCC. They’re from a similar hack that was publicized more than a decade ago. Back in 2003, another group led by researchersAntti Kaseva andAntti Stnposted analmost identical description of a fingerprint hack bellroy coque iphone using a Windows based fingerprint scanner that was, at the time, state of the art:

The hack is to create an artificial finger using a mold that is manufactured from a latent fingerprint left coque samsung a70 miroir by the legitimate user. The fingerprint can be obtained from just about anywhere, mug, door handle, rail etc. With coque iphone 5 keep calm personnalisable this artificial finger the hacker should be able to intrude a system if the mandatory smart card required for logon is available and in use.

And they demonstrated that they could do exactly that. In 2003. The only difference between that hack from a decade ago and the one from this weekend is the resolution of coque iphone 6 motif geometrique the captured fingerprint.

As usual, Apple has managed toblur the thin linebetween technical reality and marketing coque samsung a70 simba claims. This high resolution 500 ppi sensor can read extremely fine details of your fingerprint. The button itself is made from sapphire crystal one of the clearest, hardest coque iphone 6 boruto materials available. This protects the sensor and acts as a lens to precisely focus it on your finger. The steel ring surrounding the button detects your finger and tells Touch ID to start reading your fingerprint. The sensor uses advanced capacitive touch to take a high resolution image from small sections of your fingerprint from the subepidermal layers of your skin. Touch ID then intelligently analyzes this information with coque samsung a70 terrapin a remarkable degree coque iphone 6s je peux pas j’ai gym of detail and precision. Touch ID uses all of this to provide an accurate match and a very high level of security.

The article goes on to note that the odds of a random stranger’s fingerprint matching yours is in the neighborhood of 1 in 50,000, which is “much better than the 1 in 10,000 odds of guessing a typical 4 digit passcode.”

Unless they’ve captured a 2400 dpi image of your fingerprint, in which case the odds improve coque iphone x de luxe dramatically. Authentec’s technology has been part of the PC landscape for years, mostly on enterprise class notebook PCs.

And the company wasn’t shy about tooting its own horn in regard to its technical chops. If you visit the site looking for updated Windows drivers or software, you’re coque iphone 8 plus sfr redirected to a support page that cryptically notes: “AuthenTec was acquired in October 2012 and the new owner has discontinued the products and services supported on this site.”

“The coque iphone 7 coque samsung a70 disney le roi lion plus fleur new owner,” of course, is Apple.

The real lesson in all of this isn’t that fingerprints are untrustworthy. In fact, the coque coque cuir samsung a70 iphone 4s dab opposite is true. For everyday use, a fingerprint is far more secure than a four digit passcode.

If your data is valuable enough for an attacker to go to the trouble of stealing a super high resolution photo of your fingerprint and coque iphone 5c meme que 5s molding a fake finger, you probably should be coque iphone 5s fee using multi factor authentication. And in fact the iPhone already does coque iphone 7 suprem that. Your fingerprint enrollment information is stored in a secure coque iphone 6s apple bleu area in the A7 processor that powers the iPhone 5s. If someone manages to steal your fingerprint, they also need to steal your phone. That fake finger by itself won’t work with another iPhone unless you also have your Apple account credentials.

Windows 8.1, which was released to manufacturing a month before iOS 7 but won’t hit shelves until October, has similar technology. A fingerprint identificationframework designed for use with the sametype of reader as is found in the new iPhone (a coque iphone 5 pirelli big improvement over older swipe based fingerprint readers) is built into Windows 8.1. It can be combined with the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) in a Windows 8.1 device to create a virtual coque iphone 6s anti casse smartcard that makes spoofing of enterprise network credentials very difficult.

In its part marketing/part technical document, Apple says it’s come up with a solution that offers the same secure storage of biometric data, without any of the standards support that TPM includes:

iPhone 5s also includes a new advanced security architecture called the Secure Enclave within the A7 chip, which was developedto protect passcode and fingerprint data. Fingerprint data is encrypted and protected with a keyavailable only to the Secure Enclave. Fingerprint data isused only by the Secure Enclave to verify that your fingerprint matches the enrolled fingerprint data. The Secure Enclave is walled off from the rest of A7 and as well as the rest of iOS.

Regardless of the coque iphone 5c king platform you’re using, high value data should never be secured by a single factor. You’re in pretty good shape if you insist ona successful fingerprint identification combined with astrong passcode (more than a simple four digits)and a device that’s been registered with the network. If you’re a thief and youcan successfully combine all those factors, congratulations. You should be in a John Le Carrnovel.

Meanwhile, back here on Earth, your fingerprint is a convenient way to protect the garden variety secrets and shopping we all keep. Combine it with a reasonably strong passcode and you should be perfectly safe. Unless you’re also a character in a spy novel…