Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by i2shar on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:38PM
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Could the "code equivalent" of your fingerprint be stolen by a rogue app if it's allowed to read it? I don't have a touchId phone but have wondered what would happen if your "print" is stolen -- passwords can at least be changed.
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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by FussyZeus on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:06AM
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Speaking as an App Developer, we cannot touch stuff like that. We're allowed to ask Touch ID to verify things and process the results, but we don't actually get to use the Touch ID system. It's similar to how the shared keychain is used: We can ask iOS to do things, but then must handle any one of many possible answers. We don't actually see your fingerprint in any way.
Now Cydia and 3rd party stuff? I have no clue.
Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by rimantas on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:44AM
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iOS itself does not see fingerprints, it refers to SE.
Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by FussyZeus on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:07AM
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Wouldn't surprise me if true, iOS as a whole is built in a very modular fashion when it comes to the different components of the OS and developers only get access to what Apple deems us worthy of, hehe. Not that I want access to Touch ID, I much prefer to not have access to that...