Apple's released a phone with a fingerprint reader built-in and guess what: it's been hacked. Its encryption's been shredded. It's been NSA'd.According to the BBC, Germany's Chaos Computer Club claims it "successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's Touch ID" by photographing a fingerprint left on a glass surface and creating a fake finger they used to unlock the phone.So if you've got a bunch of hacker-types following you around lifting your fingerprints from glass surfaces, well, you'd better carefully guard that new iPhone.These sorts of stories create eye-catching headlines, but what do they really tell us about security? Physical security remains paramount. Snatch-and-run thefts of iPhones are so common in large US cities that the crime has acquired a nickname among law enforcement: "Apple-picking."Fortunately, Hong Kong has a low level of street crime (and few computer clubs interested in "chaos"). You'
