They manage to bypass the security of the iPhone 5s fingerprint reader with a fake fingerprint

Much has been said about him iPhone 5s fingerprint reader and your safety. Although Apple has sold it as an ideal system to even make purchases through the App Store, the truth is that very little time has passed until a method to circumvent your security.

The system is simple and it has already been used in the past to fool other fingerprint readers. The method consists of taking a photograph of our fingerprint on a glass surface with a resolution of 2400dpi. The image obtained is processed in a suitable editing program to achieve the highest possible degree of sharpness and eliminate dirty areas, then it is inverted and printed with a resolution of 1200dpi on a transparent sheet.

The next step is to apply latex or white glue and be patient until the material dries. Once the whole process is completed, we will get a rubbery touch material that pretends to be a second skin, fingerprint included. If we put that piece on the surface of the fingerprint reader, it detects it as valid, compromising the security of the system.

Clearly there is no 100% reliable security system But it has taken a very short time to get around the Touch ID of the iPhone 5s. Safe to make purchases? Maybe for many of us it is because surely we arouse little interest in thieves but still, be careful with this detail. It is clear that it is a technology that has to go hand in hand with others to gain the trust of users.

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  1.   edward said

    in fact doing this is like cutting off a person's finger, because this method can even bypass a safe deposit box ... info fast and furious

    1.    Rob Cohen said

      Do you name a hollywood movie as a reliable source? Regardless of whether it was possible or not, it is even funnier than citing wikipedia xd as a reliable source

  2.   incom2 said

    The finger must be "alive", because the reader detects the small amount of electricity that we generate that a dead finger does not generate. I imagine that latex allows the person's electricity to pass through and therefore the iPhone reader picks up the latex fingerprint thanks to the «thief »'s own electricity.

    But let's be clear. This method seems more complicated than trying to guess the user's password or forcing it to tell you. As if the current passwords were something much more reliable: most people use only one or two, they are not usually complex, they are not changed often, and very often when one is entered and the system gives an error, the user automatically doubts and try the other ... with what goodbye to the little security that there could be.

    What do you want me to tell you. Even if DNA validation is achieved, it would turn out that a malicious user with a sample of our DNA placed in a culture of cells from which the genetic material has been extracted, could deceive ...

    Come on, I think we shouldn't get too panicky than we already are; because the infallible system does not exist nor I believe that it will exist in a long time.

    1.    Chovi said

      Your comment

      »The finger must be« alive », because the reader detects the small amount of electricity»

      It seems to me that you have not seen the video, the latex does not conduct electricity, so this comment is unnecessary, it is simply repeated what Apple said, which with this test remains as liars, it simply takes a photograph of the footprint, the footprint of where the You can get from the phone itself as the glass or from other parts where you touch your iPhone when picking it up, or just following you to a bar and picking up the glass or anywhere you put your paws

      1.    Talion said

        Strictly speaking, I understand that latex is a bad conductor, not that it does not conduct electricity, I do not know if the reader works because it is still capable of detecting the capacitance of the finger around the contours or despite the bad conductivity of latex or if the reader simply takes a photo of the footprint and nothing else. I guess time will tell.

  3.   George said

    I thought they said they were confused and admitted traces that were not, but if it is that way! I still believe that it is VERY SAFE to use it! They are always tarnishing what Apple does. tell me a secure phone number__? and I will tell you methods to decipher your security ...... everything made by man, another man can look for the return ... and seeing the materials a thief or person who wants to pass my security on the phone must do to achieve it, because I do not think that achieve a lot! Not everyone will know how to prepare the Latex with white glue well so that it works! They must be experts… BETTER publish the Fight of the S4, vs Iphone 5s, and vs NOTE, published on youtube here the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzbBRCIt8Y8

  4.   Risifu said

    Come on, you haven't seen movies or naaaaa !!!! Photograph, print, glue, latex ???? I hope these thieves do not charge by the hour !!!!

  5.   Hector said

    It's the stupidest thing I've ever read. I swear it's easier to cut off a finger than to do all that! There is nothing else to write or what to do?

  6.   Guest said

    This is ridiculous, it is the same as saying that to steal someone's password you only need to know their life to know their secret answer, or that someone "discovers" that any password can be guessed by brute force.
    The idea is that if your cell phone is stolen, unless the finger you use to identify it is also stolen, they will not be able to use the fingerprint reader

  7.   Sebastian said

    This is ridiculous, it is the same as saying that to steal someone's password you only need to know their life to know their secret answer, or that someone "discovers" that any password can be guessed by brute force.

    The idea is that if your cell phone is stolen, unless the finger you use to identify it is also stolen, they will not be able to use the fingerprint reader

  8.   jean frank palacios said

    Friends we do not know yet if this person had already configured his other finger to unlock the phone. I think we are speculating a bit. Not everything that is seen has to be believed. Let's wait more time to see what happens and if Apple speaks.

  9.   TROTSKY said

    What an idiot post to good! the one who made this POST is a hollywood viewer !! if you are a spectator, why don't you see even if it's MYTH HUNTERS on discovery channel! more constructive than believing what happens in the movies! more than proven that those named systems were just movie myths by themselves! and more than the footprint is touch !!!! what does it mean???? that a latex will not activate the contact! just like your iphone you can't use it with a wooden screen or gloves -.- «

  10.   pser said

    LOOK I MAKE MY FOOTPRINT FOR THE READER WORKING WITH LATEX AND FOR THE MOLD USE POXYLIN LEAVE IT IS MORE TRUCK THAT OF THE READER

  11.   Nacho said

    Let's see if I find out, then do you want us to inform you or not? It turns out that when we do it and something doesn't like it, you either attack us or say it's ridiculous or that we watch Hollywood movies.

    This is not a movie, it is a way to bypass TouchID security. It is accepted, another post is assimilated. You are not attacking Apple, or ridiculing or anything, simply that a vulnerability has been found in a very short time to a system that in principle, they have sold as the panacea of ​​security.

    Forging a fingerprint is possible and worst of all, very simple to do. You do not have to see any Hollywood blockbuster for anyone in their homes to do it, even out of simple curiosity.

    Anyway…

    1.    A thousand ways to inform said

      http://dasalte.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren?language=en

      The thief on duty who steals my mobile and starts doing all this ... the rock freaks out ...

    2.    mine said

      Man, let's see, let's be a little realistic. Vulnerability? can, any system has one, one way or another. Simple to do? Well, well, simple yes, for you and at home. But for anyone? first you have to photograph your fingerprint on a glass where you have placed your finger. At first, this is nothing simple, a lot of vigilance for someone to get something like that. And then run the whole system from that photo? I'm afraid it's not that simple, even if it seems like it. You have to do a lot of tests to get the whole system to fit you.
      Anyway, which is easier, do this or have someone look over your shoulder and see your 4-digit code? If this is easy, then the 4-digit code I don't even tell you, it was child safety. If you think that it is difficult for someone to see the code, imagine that they can get a fingerprint of you from a photo to a glass.
      Simple I doubt, possible, sure, like everything in this life.

  12.   Ivan said

    You only need to read the comments of the video to see that it is a fake. Greetings.

  13.   Djgeorge said

    If my cell phone is stolen, first where will they get my fingerprint and let's not say they would have to guess which finger I use to unlock my cell phone, then to do all that processing, second I still have the options offered by looking for my iPhone.
    Conclusion the iPhone 5s is one of the cel that offers more security, if you want it more secure put it in a bank safe.

  14.   lopez said

    Why didn't he put the piece of latex on something dead (like a stick)? Because he put it over his own finger….
    and another thing, .. to be able to do that, first they have to get your print, .. and then print it, and then mold it in latex,…. come on, it has little to simple ...
    It is easier for someone who is by your side to see how you type the 4 digits of the lock code, I say not ...

    1.    Talion said

      Because an inert object like a stick has no capacitance, the same reason why you couldn't unlock the phone with a dead man's hand. False or not the video, what you propose would not work with an object without capacitance like the skin of people (alive), it is like trying to operate the screen of your iphone with a stick, it does not work (the stylus have capacitance too).

  15.   bukson said

    I think it is a FAKE the phone looks like an iphone 4 or 4S and therefore does not have a Touch id