24.09.2013 17:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

German hackers crack Apple fingerprint technology

It didn't take long for the hacking community to crack Apple's fingerprint recognition system, Touch ID.A German hacking group, Chaos Community Club, announced that they'd managed to fool the fingerprint scanner in the iPhone 5S with techniques generally used to defeat similar technologies in the market.To crack Touch ID, CCC first photographed a fingerprint of a phone's owner using a resolution of 2400 dots per inch. The image was then inverted and laser printed on a transparent sheet with the toner setting set to thick.Next, pink latex milk or white wood glue was smeared into the print of the fingerprint. After the latex or glue dries, it's lifted from the laser print, breathed on to moisten it slightly and placed on the iPhone's fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone."In reality, Apple's sensor has just a higher resolution compared to the sensors so far," a CCC member, Starbug, explained in a statement.

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