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Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID by jbraithwaite on Sunday September 22, 2013 @10:28PM (#6428909)
From Apple's site [1]:

> Touch ID does not store any images of your fingerprint. It stores only a mathematical representation of your fingerprint.

> The Secure Enclave is walled off from the rest of A7 and as well as the rest of iOS. Therefore, your fingerprint data is never accessed by iOS or other apps, never stored on Apple servers, and never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. Only Touch ID uses it and it can't be used to match against other fingerprint databases.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5949?viewlocale=en_US

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Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID by abcd_f on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:31AM (#6429436)
Your trust in Apple is heartwarming.
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Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID by joesb on Monday September 23, 2013 @08:53AM (#6430463)
Then you might as well say Apple already secretly have finger scanner since iPhone first generation and already sent that data over the wire. Or may be there are also finger scanner on your keyboard right now!!! Also that video-cam on most notebook, it's now always on and secretly send the data to NSA!!!!
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Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday September 23, 2013 @08:10PM (#6435001)
a "mathematical representation of" is exactly what a "digital image" is.
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Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID by nacs on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:56AM (#6436264)
They're clearly referring to storing some kind of "hash"/mathematical representation of your fingerprint vs a plain photo/"digital image".
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