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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by dragontamer on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:53PM (#15444342)
If your password gets compromised, you can change your passwords.

If your fingerprint gets compromised, you CANT change your finger (erm... probably. I dunno of any easy way in any case)

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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by bdamm on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:32PM (#15444674)
It's not your fingerprint that's the issue, it's the data that represents your fingerprint. If that data gets compromised then it's nigh impossible to change your fingerprint. However, I believe there are ways to make this very significantly difficult, and I believe Apple has achieved this level of difficulty by placing the fingerprint data in the secure enclave.
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